From: Mike Dudley To: Russell Jennings Cc: tbranan@eidetic.com ; 3DSMAX@Engram.net <3DSMAX@Engram.net> Subject: Re: dual proc doubts Date: Friday, April 21, 2000 1:31 PM Russell, What application do YOU use, in which you see a difference in rendering time? Those benchmarks are for Pro-engineer, for screen redraw performance. I did happen to see something that might support your claim here: http://www.intense3d.com/4210/4210FFB.asp Search the page for "Hardware accumulation buffers" Interesting, but it was fairly vague as to what it would actually do for rendering, say a film res TGA file in 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, etc. MikeD Russell Jennings wrote: > Here's a URL http://www.intense3d.com/I3DBench.asp That shows benchmarks > for various cards, in various apps. Now, most apps do not take advantage of > an extra card, so, in one respect, my opponents are correct. However, with > the correct application, and the correct drivers, the program can render to > the card. In the benchmarks above, Pro-Engineer is one of those apps. I > don't know if Max does or not, but I imagine if you use the correct drivers > (many of these vendors make different drivers for different apps) you would > notice a difference in the final render. > > Russ > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net