[rescue] Wow, 30k Graphics Card From Sun

[nick at snowman.net]

o2+ did get upgraded to 2gig?  I keep hearing rumors of this, but all the
SGI specs I see say 1gig.
http://www.sgi.com/workstations/o2plus/
"# 256MB to 1GB Synchronous DRAM using 288-bit wide DIMMs"
I agree that it badly needs 1gig, however I don't see it as an option
anywhere.
	Nick

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> 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
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