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- From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
- Subject: Re: ET4000/W32 and VESA VL-Bus
- In-Reply-To: hasty@netcom.com's message of Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:56:12 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.080653.4328@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- <1992Dec17.190542.2662@utagraph.uta.edu>
- <1992Dec18.095906.3950@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- <1992Dec18.185612.10836@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 14:30:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.143035.23332@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- >All XS3 published benchmarks are run at 1024x768 clocked at higher
- >than 60 Hz. I obtained the results from netters because I don't
- >own a high resolution monitor. During candid, e-mail exchange I do
- >state my own benchmarks. In the future I will state the clock
- >frequency and the resolution.
-
- In fact nobody accused you that you posted illegaly tuned benchmarks
- by using the lowest possible resolution. As it happens this wasn't the
- question.
-
- Normally what you get as benchmarks is material published by the
- vendors (how have no interest of showing any weakness of their own
- product) or magazines, which are largely DOS/Windows based, and hence
- try to find the least common resolution between boards. Until recently
- this was either 640x480 or 800x600. And in these lower resolutions you
- simply cannot see this problem described with DRAM vs. VRAM that
- clearly. If you then think about the fact that most people using X do
- 1024x768 in the highest possible refresh rates, these benchmarks are
- pretty much meaningless (besides the fact that they are mostly measure
- with drivers that were tuned especially for MS-Windows and some
- benchmarks, who are very easy to fool). As far as I know up to now no
- HW vendor yet publicates the XS3 xstones rating for his board ... They
- are mostly not intrested in X-Windows as much as they are interested
- in MS-Windows.
-
- And one thing people shoudln't forget this that there are two new
- developements in the market:
-
- a) people are starting to use 1280x1024 (110MB/sec)
- b) chips using 64 DRAM buses start to appear
-
- But still VRAM will have a speed advantage over DRAM. And if the price
- difference is that inferior as $50, one should really think about it.
-
- - Thomas
-
-
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- Das Reh springt hoch, e-mail: roell@sgcs.com
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- was soll es tun, es hat ja Zeit ...
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