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- From: spider@hercules.kgn.ibm.com (Gregory Scallan)
- Subject: Re: RS6000 graphic card, where to buy??
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.131928.25350@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 13:19:28 GMT
- Reply-To: spider@hercules.kgn.ibm.com (Gregory Scallan)
- References: <BzzoJ0.MwF@austin.ibm.com> <MEYER.92Dec22120952@ibsen.geomatic.no>
- Organization: IBM Kingston NY
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- There are a whole slew of IBM graphics cards for 2d and 3d: For 2D in a
- 3xx or 5xx series machine, the gt3 adapter is recommended. If in a model 220,
- the gt1 is recommended. For 3D graphics using phigs, graPHIGS, GL or
- PEX, there
- are several adapters available depending on the performance and function you
- want. Here is a quick hardware rating of the adapters to give you an estimate
- of the performance differences:
-
-
- Adapters: CGDA Gt1 Gt3 High Perf. Gt4 Gt4x Gto
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- BitBlit rate (Mpel/sec) 10 34 15 20 15 20 20
- 2D Vectors 75 284 600 80 650 800
- 990
- 3D Vectors N/A N/A N/A 80 350 700 990
- Triangles, Gouraud N/A N/A N/A 20 20 75 120
- shded (k/sec)
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- ____________________________________________________________
- Gregory J. Scallan | IBMnet: GSCALLAN@KGNVMY
- Graphics Systems Technical Center, AWSD | Internet: spider@vnet.ibm.com
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