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From: robert@texas.esd.sgi.com (Robert Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: New IBM Graphics Workstations
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.154349.10690@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 6 Sep 90 15:43:49 GMT
References: <1990Jul25.155350.10192@athena.mit.edu> <17450006@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
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In article <17450006@hpfcdj.HP.COM>, kuba@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Kathy Kuba) writes:
|> > / hpfcdj:comp.sys.sgi / ciemo@bananaPC.wpd.sgi.com (Dave
Ciemiewicz) / 12:10 pm  Jul 30, 1990 /
|> > 
|> > >     For comparison, SGI says a base IRIS 4D/50 with 8 bit planes does
|> > > 140K vectors/sec and 5.5K polygons/sec.  An IRIS with GTX graphics is
|> > > supposed to do 475K vectors/sec and 100K polygons/sec.
|> > 
|> 
|> 2D or 3D vectors?
|> 
|> Kathy

unlike some other companies nearby, SGI's benchmarks are *always* for 
*fully transformed and clipped 3D* vectors.

Robert Skinner
robert@sgi.com

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