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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (55784)	4/17/1999 11:40:00 AM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579676

Jim, At appears the Microsoft drivers for DirectX6.1 do not render all polygons on the PIII's SIMD instructions. In fact it appears to render a little over half. No wonder it yields nearly double the performance. It's all a big f*cking joke. If you look at it logically for DX 6.1, the PIII instructions add maybe 2% to frame rate. HMMMM.. Another Intel sham? We'll see. If I can borrow a PIII machine this week I'll toss together a couple quick benchmarks coded myself and we'll see if this is something that is constant. Regards, Steve