Beyond Packed Attributes#)(Re: Differences between RM4 & RM5 boardsrmorris Message EncodingISO-8859Use Proportional Font %Previous From$remi@remi.asd.sgi.com (R\imi Arnaud) 8Previous To6 ''&modellers@intersim.co.uk (John Wintle) (Previous Cc& info-performer@sgi.com Original textC Textf > From: remi@remi.asd.sgi.com (R\imi Arnaud), on 23/05/97 07:01: > 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 @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 ? > Hi, John, Remi As I understand it, you now have 16MB, instead of 4MB of texture memory. Note that having 2 Raster Managers doesn't give you more texture, it just lets you draw it faster, since the load is shared between them. Regards Roger Morris > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > -- > > > > Regards, > > > > John Wintle, > > Principal Visual Modeller, > > Intersim Limited, Units 7-8, Thorgate Road, Littlehampton. Sussex. UK > > Tel: +44 (0)1903 733428 Fax: +44 (0)1903 730246 > > email: modellers@intersim.co.uk Internet: http://www.intersim.co.uk > > > > ======================================================================= > > List Archives, FAQ, FTP: http://www.sgi.com/Technology/Performer/ > > Submissions: info-performer@sgi.com > > Admin. requests: info-performer-request@sgi.com > > > > _ / _ _ > |_) _ ._ _ o /\ |_)|\ | /\ | || \ > | \(/_| | || /--\| \| \|/--\|_||_/ > > > ======================================================================= > List Archives, FAQ, FTP: http://www.sgi.com/Technology/Performer/ > Submissions: info-performer@sgi.com > Admin. requests: info-performer-request@sgi.com > > ========================== Roger Morris TRANSFORMATION SOFTWARE Applications Engineer Thame Park Road TEL: 01844 261456 Thame FAX: 01844 260056 Oxon, OX9 3UQ E-mail: rmorris@tswl.co.uk http://www.transform.co.uk ==========================f Ms(8(p8Courier8CourierCDYZ_`lmrs  !$%Z[^_  VW\]=>XY\]]^lmmnABBCJKKLXYYZ_`wx}~TU89no  45bcfg+,ghkloppq  1 2 L M g d` @  `@ Attachment Count