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To: Scott Garee who wrote (13440)	6/24/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Respond to of 16960

That's the second place I've read someone from TDFX say geometry acceleration isn't worth it unless it is significantly faster than the main CPU. I can't talk about what the next part will or won't have. You may want to check over at the fool for speculation about geometry. There are two types of geometry processors out there. The ones like Glint are hardwired and take over all the geometry operations. You are then limited to the power of the GE. The RealImage stuff from E&S is scalable and allows you to offload only portions of the work to ensure the GE doesn't become the bottleneck. Remember the fujitsu pinolite? The GE was so slow that it only helped the most low-end computers and actually hurt performance on high-end. Pat