[rescue] Wow, 30k Graphics Card From Sun

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:33:30PM -0700, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> 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....

Excuse me, I meant to say O2+, which takes a total of 2 gigs of ram,
and when maxed out can use 1.5 gigs of it for textures.  Obviously it
doesn't use as much frame buffer, but then, it has no need to
considering it's design and limitations.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd