Gutspiller
08-08-2002, 01:00 PM
The ï10 can be considered a starting point of the strengthening family of flexibly programmable GPUs. This chip takes a special position. It is nothing else but a hardware incarnation of a project of the API OpenGL 2.0 standard, as 3Dlabs sees this API. We wrote about the OpenGL 2.0 product in detail and touched upon peculiarities of the DirectX 9 (in analytical materials on Matrox Parhelia-512 and ATI RADEON 9700). As you might notice, although ideas concerning flexible programming of operation of a graphics accelerator are common, it's easy to find difference in realization of such ideas, even on the API's level. Now, when we have a 3Dlabs P10 based card in our lab, we can trace differences on the hardware level.
Digit-Life.com (http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/p10/index.html)
Digit-Life.com (http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/p10/index.html)