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- From: pgr@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Partially Grown Rhododendron)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: S3 server 0.3 released
- Message-ID: <pgr.184306.16Dec1992@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 18:48:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.230528.17997@tc.cornell.edu> <KETIL.92Dec15024508@sandel.ii.uib.no>
- Sender: pgr@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Partially Grown Rhododendron)
- Reply-To: pgr@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Partially Grown Rhododendron)
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
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- Originator: pgr@pierrot.comlab
-
- In <KETIL.92Dec15024508@sandel.ii.uib.no>, ketil@ii.uib.no writes:
- > I am impressed by the apparent speed of the S3 cards, however,
- > concidering they are not lagging far behind the indigo which is
- > specifically designed to handle graphics at high speeds, and costing
- > lots of $$$. :-)
-
- Well, having seen Jon's card in operation (and an Iris Entry/4000),
- the Iris hammers the S3 into the ground in interactive performance...
- The moral of this story is: xbench is not a good benchmark test :-)
- Believe me, the S3 card is nowhere near the speed of a Silicon Graphics
- machine (even bottom of the range)... :-}
-
- Then again, that's what one would hope...
-
- (The same can't be said for the SparcStation -- they really are lousy.)
-
- Phil
-