From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Feb 8 02:20:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA14262 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 02:20:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA14256 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 02:20:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.9.1/8.9.1) with IAEhv.nl id LAA12726; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:20:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bowtie.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07176; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:15:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Message-Id: <199902081015.LAA07176@bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: The Hermit Hacker cc: Wilko Bulte , luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Something to show off...? In-reply-to: scrappy's message of Sat, 06 Feb 1999 19:14:11 -0400. Reply-to: marc@bowtie.nl Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:15:03 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [snip] > > > downloaded blender...going to have to flip to my old card and see if I > > > notice a difference between the two...tried a few of the demos in the > > > tutor pack, and altho they look impressive, they look slow too, but I'm > > > curious as to whether they'd look worse with my old card or not *shrug* > > > > >From playing with blender a bit I'd guess you need the heftiest CPU > > money can buy, and then buy the best video card from the money left. > > I'm running a PII-266 as CPU, 128Meg of RAM and a Creative Graphics > Blaster RivaTNT video card with 16Meg of RAM on it...does that count? :) > Actually, with that, I was impressed with how responsive Blender was, but > I'm curious as to how much of that is the CPU vs the video card, so will > be downgrading the video card later this evening to see ... > See http://www.blender.nl/stuff/blench1.html http://www.blender.nl/stuff/blench2.html For some comparisons, also note the PII 463 (overclocked) machine, that can really compete with the lower end SGI's in drawing speed ;-) In rendering speed (blench2) SGI's are easily outperformed by the PII's and alpha's. Bottomline is (since Mesa is used) CPU+fast rect copying videocard counts the most. Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message