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To: Alex Balazs who wrote (2450)	11/23/1997 3:27:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) of 6843

Alex, RE: I still don't see what advantage it has over an add-in board like the Voodoo2... My understanding is that the processor typically does the polygon vertice geometry transformations and the 3D graghics card does the rendering (filling the triangles in with textured pixels). Currently, processors can't keep fast 3D cards supplied with transformed polygons. The new floating point instructions added to the K6 3D, especially the MAC (multiply and add in one cycle), should allow it to supply fast 3D cards with all the polygons they can eat. This is really the same reason why the performance of your favorite 3D card scales with processor speed. Pravin.

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