For some reason my http remote mail client doesn't send things to mail lists. Below is some info about GPUs.
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From: cgc@taproot Date: June 17, 2004 11:55:10 AM CDT To: Max Neupert abonnements@revolwear.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] GEM: graphics cards?
Quoting Max Neupert abonnements@revolwear.com:
i was told that i shold go for ati cards. http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9800/radeon9800pro/compare.html
right?
On OSX, ATI is indeed the only way to go at the moment - the only decent performance options for a new Mac and the only aftermarket products both come from ATI.
If you want to go with a 9800 that's fine, but we're not doing any shaders... yet.
Am 17.06.2004 um 17:25 schrieb Martin Dupras:
After two years of excellent service, my GeForce4 Ti4600 graphics card seems to be dying...
I have since been completely unaware of development on the graphics cards front, but since most of my graphics needs are for GEM, I tought I'd ask here if anyone could recommend good recent cards that can drive two CRTs monitors (e.g. TwinView in the NVidia world) and has good openGL acceleration (for GEM performance.)
First, what platform? XP has the option of ATI and NV, but Linux still seems to be dominated by Nvidia's comprehensive drivers.
You had a pretty good card for running GEM, and since we really don't stress the GPU all that much with the current code you could probably go with a similar card for cheap and not see a performance hit*. I would stay away from any of the low-end GeforceFX crap (5200 and 5600 are pathetic), but you don't have to go with an X800 or 6800 just to get a decent framerate. Something like the ATI 9600 or equal NV card would be a decent choice right now, and also have some support for future features like shaders.
- the only way you would possibly hit a GPU bottleneck would be
loading huge models, the model object uses a display list, while most other objects are still stuck in direct mode and thus are client CPU limited. This will change.
cgc
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