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- From: martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (Psigon Matrix....do you DOUBT us??)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Ending this stupid Vivid24 is faster than SGI box claim.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.151917.2221@msus1.msus.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:19:17 GMT
- References: <C1I4HH.8uH@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
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- In article <C1I4HH.8uH@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, nbenami@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Rebel without a clue.) writes:
- >I'm going to keep this simple:
- >The claims that the Vivid24 is so much faster than a high end SGI
- >box are ludicrous. The Reality Engine does 800 MFLOPS NOT COUNTING
- >the 4 R4000's inside it, for $100,000. 600,000 textured polygons/sec.
- >Compare that to 100,000 CLAIMED (probably not sustained) shaded polygons/sec
- >on the DMI board.
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- There was no claim that it's faster then the reality engine...I believe the
- claim was that it's faster then a base indigo.
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- >
- >I'm not knocking it, but lets not claim this is the be-all and end-all of
- >graphics hardware.
- >
- It is on the amiga so far...(ON the amiga)
-
- Jim
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