Re: Differences between RM4 & RM5 boards

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Rémi Arnaud (remi++at++remi.asd.sgi.com)
Thu, 22 May 1997 10:31:41 -0700 (PDT)


John Wintle wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We have just taken delivery of an Onyx RE2 + MCO which has 2 RM5 boards
> in it. Could someone tell me the differences between the RM4 and the RM5
> boards.
>

 Lucky you, you now have plenty of Texture memory.

> We also have two other Onyx RE2 + MCO machines that have 4 RM4's in each
> one. What performance differences would we notice between the RM4's and
> RM5's.
>
> We will be using the MCO in each case with 3 x 960x680 ++at++60Hz windows.
>
> Can we use multisampling with these configurations, as initial
> investigations have indicated that this will only work without MCO
> enabled.

 Same performance, ony much more texture. If I am correct it is
 64MB instead of 16MB ?

>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> John Wintle,
> Principal Visual Modeller,
> Intersim Limited, Units 7-8, Thorgate Road, Littlehampton. Sussex. UK
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