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- From: bryan white <bwhite3@ix.netcom.com>
- 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 16:23:00 -0800
- Organization: IS
- Message-ID: <31081EE4.5D96@ix.netcom.com>
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- Jeff Barr wrote:
- >
- > 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
-
- not being a renderer at all, but I beleive it was the "Amiga Computing"
- mag that did a Lightwave rendering test and found the 50Mhz 060 as fast
- or faster than a P90.
-
- I wasn't there so I don't verify that it happened :-)
- Tha magazine is at home so I can't confirm my rememberence. <g>
-
- bryan
-