home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: nntp.teleport.com!sschaem
- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: CHIP RAM speed test resul
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 01:53:53 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
- Message-ID: <4k1ufh$oud@nadine.teleport.com>
- References: <4j6jv0$1im@serpens.rhein.de> <5827.6659T112T770@mbox.vol.it> <Ky0ky*cI0@mkmk.in-chemnitz.de> <4622.6665T255T29@mbox.vol.it> <4jtn4p$qg4@serpens.rhein.de>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: linda.teleport.com
- X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
-
- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- : bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti) writes:
-
- : >What do you do with 50MB/sec of "transfer rate"? Just *transfer* animations?
- : >Maybe from your 600K/sec CD? Or you render gfx on screen? Making with the
- : >CPU most of the job that a video device should do.
-
- : "should do" ? That's ideology. There is nothing wrong with the CPU
- : doing calculations and that includes rendering. And if the CPU is faster
- : as your special purpose hardware then you need very much of your
- : ideology to justify the special purpose hardware.
-
- Little comment to say dedicated HW is not alway better...
- People in #coders where laughting at some new 3d PC card, because it
- was actually slower then rendering with a fast p5 making the HW only
- good for people with old pc setup (I guess it was the point since the
- card didn't offer a PCI version)
-
- Stephan
-
-