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To: Joe Pirate who wrote (10479)	2/3/1999 8:24:00 PM
From: Michael Madden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Although Intel's design of AGP is poor for transfering textures, SGI has shown that one can make a killer graphics system for the PC that uses a unified memory architecture (UMA) exclusively. If you ever get the chance to see a demo of SGI's new NT workstations, I recommend it. They are very impressive. I saw one last week. The machine in the demo had 1GB of RAM with 276MB used for textures. And, the SGI's UMA architecture provides 3.0GB/s of bandwidth between the graphics processor and main memory. That's the equivalent onboard bandwidth of the Voodoo3!.