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To: Elmer who wrote (27768)	1/8/1998 3:01:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572941

Elmer, nowadays just about any (even low end) graphics card will give you the 2D performance you need. The high end is currently defined by its superior performance in 3D.

To: Elmer who wrote (27768)	1/9/1998 3:03:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572941

Elmer, The big advantage of doing 3D on the chip is that most cards only do texture mapping right now and not the triangle setup, so trinagle setup is not accelerated on msot cards (and when it is done the card the bandwidth consumption is quite large). Now there are cards out there and cards coming out that have a full geometry pipeline on them, but they are very expensive (more than a PII 233). The reason that they are so expensive is they are becoming CPU's themselves. As an Intel fan/supporter I would have thought you would have welcomed the idea of the CPU doing the 3D work. After all it's another excuse for people like me to give the wife for an upgrade. It also means higher revenues for cpu makers and let's not forget, MMX2 is widely acknowledged to do the same thing as the the +3D on the K6+3D. Are you saying Intel shoulnd't release MMX2 because I can get a graphics card to do it too? Also (lesser point) many of the instructions in the new 3D instruction set could conceivably be used to help with calculations required for positional audio.. (3d audio) Steve Cyrix/NSM Rule!