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Article #680Re: Amiga Power (Was RE: Babylon 5)
From: Rev Lebaredian
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 13:38
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 13:38
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If you are interested in using the Amiga for 3D animation, take a look at DMIs Vivid 24 board. Fully populated(four TI34020s), DMI claims it can render 100,000 gourard shaded polygons per second and give you 160 mflops of raw power. This is compared to 70 mflops on a $200,000 SGI. A fully populated Vivid with a amiga 3000 and an 040 board(for some mips) comes in at about $12,000. Not to mention that it also gives 2048x2048x24(1280x1024x24 non-interlaced). It is supposed to be fully supported by Real3D v2.0($599) which should be coming out in a month or two. You could concievably network 10 Amigas each with a Vivid24 and 040 to get 1600 Mflos (1.6 GFLOPS!) for about $120,000. When compared to an equivolent SGI setup, it seems many times more cost efective.
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Newsgroups: comp.graphics.animation Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!The-Star.honeywell.com!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!mnemonic From: mnemonic@netcom.com (Rev Lebaredian) Subject: Re: Amiga Power (Was RE: Babylon 5) Message-ID: <1993Jan24.133854.21680@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1993Jan22.142655.15030@city.cs> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 13:38:54 GMT Lines: 15