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From: ciemo@bananaPC.wpd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: New IBM Graphics Workstations
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.161712.29956@relay.wpd.sgi.com>
Date: 6 Sep 90 16:17:12 GMT
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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.
> > 
> > Don't forget the VGX system's 1M vps and 1M pps.  This board uses the GL
> > unlike IBM's top-o'-the-line.
> > 
> > >     It is not obvious how to compare the figures, however.  The IBM
> > The graphics performance numbers for the Personal Iris and GT
graphics systems
> > vps are based on 10 pixel, connected, full 24-bit color, arbitrary
orientation
> > 
> 
> 2D or 3D vectors?
> 
> Kathy

3D, of course.  Sorry for the missing detail.

						--- Ciemo