Re: Differences between RM4 & RM5 boards
Svend Tang-Petersen (svend++at++rex.copen.sgi.com)
Fri, 23 May 1997 08:30:45 +0200
On May 22, 10:31am, Rémi Arnaud wrote:
> Subject: Re: Differences between RM4 & RM5 boards
> 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 ?
>
No, it's an RE2 so it's 16MB instead of 4MB.
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Regards Svend
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