[rescue] Wow, 30k Graphics Card From Sun

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> BTW, the IR4 is out now.  A single IR4 pipeline can drive 8 displays.
> Up to 16 pipes are allowed.  Hideously expensive of course, but they
> won't say how much.  And it still doesn't match the amount of texture
> memory than an O2 can have, but by chaining multiple pipes...  I don't
> know if you can get away with that for expanding the textures to be
> used for rendering 1 volumetric object.

The IR4 can have 1GB texture RAM per pipe, the O2 can only have 900MB
textures (assuming the OS and application leave that much free), and it
uses smaller maps/color space/etc... Plus 2.5GB of frame buffer per
RasterManager....