From: Ian R. <id...@us...> - 2004-06-29 01:07:40
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Rogelio M.Serrano Jr. wrote: > Can somebody make a pci or pci-x card with a current generation 2Ghz > processor high memory bandwidth and fast floating point and some > graphics chip and use that as an opengl accelerator? Can this be fast > enough for current games? Is there a similar card somewhere? Or is it > possible to get a pc strip everything out such that it only accepts > opengl commands and does only rendering to a framebuffer? Can we then > run almost nothing else but a mesa based graphic system on it and get > performance comparable to an r3x0 card? You could probably make a dedicated X-Server with multiple AMD64 processors that could do the job. That's probably the only commodity hardware that could do it due to the bandwith issues. Adding SMP optimizations (think SLI or a PowerVR style tiled display) on top of the optimizations in my other message might make the $3000 system half as fast as the $300 graphics card. It would still be interesting to do. :) |