sphere benchmarks on VTK Quality WinNT machine

[Sebastien Barre]

At 10:44 06/07/1999 -0400, Miller, James V (CRD) wrote:

>test machine is a dual
>processor Pentium II 300 with 128 MB of RAM and running WinNT 4 SP4.

>The second set of results is from a 
>Permedia3 Create! board.

I did not knew that the Permedia 3 was already available. Could you give us
some clues regarding its price ?

I hope the drivers are not optimized yet, because the results are kind of
disappointing :

   1) 256x256 :  443.5 kpolys/s : [stripper]
   2) 256x256 :  241.7 kpolys/s : [small_sphere]
   3) 256x256 :  222.5 kpolys/s : [transparency]
   4) 256x256 :  220.6 kpolys/s : []

And here is the results of the good old Permedia 2 (around $100) : 154
kpolys/s at 128x128 [] (that was my previous board) with a single PII @
300, and someone reported 220 kpolys/s with a PII @ 350 and overclocked bus
(which seems strange).

Permedia 3 was meant to be a killer :( I hope it's not too expensive, and
stilling filling a "niche" in the market. Let's say not more than $400,
otherwise it might not be worth the price (except the good geometry engine). 


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