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To: fyodor_ who wrote (22706)	12/17/2000 4:39:35 PM
From: Paul Ma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

T&L is overhyped and there are currently no games that uses it much. Also it does not reduce memory bandwidth in any signiciant manner, it is suppose to be a secondary cpu so that the main cpu doesn't have to do work. Why does Nvidia have to use ultra fast 250 mhz DDR for their cpus if memory bandwidth isn't an issue? An example of the tile based rendering chip is the Kyro which uses 125 mhz SDRAM or around there and is almost the speed of a Geforce which uses 166 MHZ DDRAM. Also Gigapixel has alleged that their technology gives free FSAA, but since TVs are already antialiased, it wouldn't do much but for computers, free FSAA is a big thing, since traditional methods would decrease performance by 2x or 4x depending on type of FSAA. Paul