[rescue] Wow, 30k Graphics Card From Sun

nick at snowman.net nick at snowman.net
Fri Jul 26 16:20:50 CDT 2002


It all depends.  I'd recommend benchmarking it.
	Nick

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, it was written:

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 04:13:12PM -0400, George Adkins wrote:
> > That's because the Indigo2 was a better machine.
> > The fact that an o2 can render with hundreds of megs of textures better than 
> > the Octane is an accident of it's cheesy design.
> > 
> > What good is hundreds of megs of main memory taken out of use to store 
> > textures anyway when the 3d performance is nonexistent/poor?
> 
> To be honest, my question for the O2-savvy among us concerns its
> memory architecture in terms of SQL database performance.  Would it be
> faster in any way due to its design over say a R10K based I2?
> 
> ./patrick
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