[geeks] sgi i2 opengl/glut perf question

[Daniel Johannsson]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:41:11AM -0500, James Sharp wrote:
> If you want true Chewy Goodness, find yourself a multiprocessor Onyx with
> an RE2...
I looked at some gfx comparisons at Ian Mapleson's site, and it looked like
an onyx re2 isn't that much faster than a high impact at doing shaded tris.
Is the big difference when it comes to texturing?  I'm a bit concerned
about what will happen on the high impact box when I try to use more than
4mb of textures.  Will it just not work, or will there be a huge perf
hit once it has to swap out textures for every frame draw?
Does an re2 have a lot more tram? I noticed that it supposedly has a
lot more framebuffer, can 160mb really be true?
Later,

Dan