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- From: elric@tnp.com (Jeff Barr)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NewTek SHIPS Lightwave 4.0/Amiga!
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 07:59:06 GMT
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- On Wed, 24 Jan 1996 08:57:49 -0600, "Michael M. Rye"
- <1726@topcity.mn.org> wrote:
-
- >Jeff Barr wrote:
- >> What does it have to do with anything? My single processor, bargain
- >> basement P100 will render 10x faster than an A4000/040, for less
- >> money, and includes TRUE 24 bit output and a CD ROM as well (not to
- >> mention gobs more storage space). NOBODY serious about 3D renders on
- >> an Amiga anymore
-
- >Of course your P100 is going to render faster, your comparing it to a
- >friggen '040 for gods sake!! Typical PeeCee user comparing apples
- >and oranges again!
-
- Get a life, then a clue. What's being compared is rendering times. Who
- the hell cares WHAT processor it's being rendered on (which was the
- original point that you were too blind in your amigaized tunnel vision
- to see). The point is that there are a LOT of solutions out there for
- serious rendering, but the Amiga simply doesn't figure into them, yet.
- Maybe when the PPC Amigas come out that will change.
-
- >Now an '060 (at 50MHz) on the other hand beats a P90 for rendering time.
- >I would imagine that a 66 MHz '060 would beat your P100. Anyone
- >verify that????
-
- And where are you getting these whimisical stats from, dreamland? A
- p100 renders the standard lightwave texture demo (and here I correct
- My statement of 10x) 8.6 times faster than an A4000/040. A Cyberstorm
- '060 equipped A4000 renders the same scene 3.1 times faster than the
- A4000/040 (Video Toaster user, July 1995). So you're telling me that a
- P90, running just 10 Mhz slower than a P100, renders 2/3 slower? I
- somehow don't think so. And the P100 is STILL almost 3x faster than
- the '060 based A4000 (not to mention about 3x cheaper). FYI, the
- Raptor 3 (with one 266 Mhz alpha 21164, dunno what they've got in them
- now, might indeed be dual processored) renders 45x faster than the
- stock A4000 (two processors, or faster ones, would put it in the 80x
- faster realm of the original speculation).
-
-
- Flat on my back in the middle of the Information Superhighway
-