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- From: adrian@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca (Adrian Smith)
- Subject: Re: NeXTdimension -- what are the *official* specs?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.150723.1810@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- References: <1992Jul22.205203.17283@cs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:07:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.205203.17283@cs.ubc.ca> sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart
- Ritchie) writes:
- > the interactive renderman engine, as implemented in the 3DKit,
- > does in fact use the i860 on the NeXTDimension board for
- > rendering computations. The implementor says that there is
- > perhaps an order of magnitude better performance with the i860
- > than the 040. I don't know what sort of benchmark was used to
- > make this comparison.
- >
- > Has anyone outside of NeXT seen a 3DKit demo on a NeXTdimension
- > system? All the demos that I have seen and heard of are done
- > using the slabs.
-
- We had the opportunity to test 3DKit, albeit for a short period, on a
- Dimension. We only got a chance to use 3View, not the prman stuff, but
- there was a noticeable speed difference (maybe 30%) between the 25MHz slab
- and the Dimension system. I don't have any real numbers to throw out,
- since this was a brief intro to our User Group.
-
- Also, we were only using PR1.
-
- --
- Adrian Smith
- University of Alberta NeXT Campus Consultant
- adrian@niagara.ucs.ualberta.ca
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