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From: daves@martha (Dave Springer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Just how fast are these things, anyway?
Keywords: Speed, GL, Benchmarks
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Date: 24 Apr 91 22:29:17 GMT
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I would like to know just exactly how fast a PI is, and all the other machines  
SGI makes.  When I say "how fast" I mean how many 10-pixel marketing lines can  
you _really_ get from a client app to the screen; how many 100-pixel marketing  
triangles can you _really_ get, etc. (this includes GL overhead,  
transformations, clipping, and so on).  Please include price information, like  
"On a PI that costs $15,000, you can get 2000 smooth-shaded polygons per sec,  
with 3 lights".  Obviously I can get some numbers from the marketing  
literature, but I get enough lies as it is.  Please respond directly to  
daves@next.com.  Thanks.

der Springer.