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To: SidStock who wrote (7137)	11/3/1997 1:50:00 PM
From: Bill Lin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14577

Sid, just guessing: 128 bit GX3 architecture for 2x AGP ==>160-180 3Dwinmarks -->500,000 triangles per sec. Nvidia Riva 128 --> 450,000 triangles/sec. Voodoo 2 --> 3 million triangles/sec. TDDDF GLINT MX 1mm tgl/sec, 33mm pxl/sec, 2mm vector/sec 33mm bilinear pixel/sec, 16.5 trilinear pixels/sec. 3DLabs GLINT Delta 750k triangles/sec. 3DLabs GLINT 300SX 300k polygons/sec. 3Dlabs Permedia 2 1mm tgl/sec. (sampling at $35/10k lot: 14 design wins) 3D winmark of 131. its hard figuring out which chip is best price/performance. 3D winmark is an average of several tests. i like the cNET test best (ran real games and measures frames per sec.) The Vortex, i think, adds Faroudja tech on top of GX3. it doesn't increase 3D performance by itself. The target is moving. GX3 will not be able to sell for more than 3Dlabs Permedia 2 unless its capabilities are a lot stronger. Voodoo2 is only big announcement in chip world this fall. i hope GX3 announces soon. BL