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Heavy OpenGL Work
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Posted by: TotalRecall
Ace's Hardware has a comparison between several OpenGL accelerators including the 3DLabs Wildcat II 5110, 3DLabs Wildcat II 5000, ATi FireGL 2, Elsa Gloria III (Nvidia Quadro II), Geforce 2 GTS, and Geforce 3 cards. These cards (with the exception of the GeForces) are optimized for heavy polygon counts. Ace's used programs such as 3D Studio Max 4, Maya 4, MCAD, Indy3D, and SpecViewPerf for benchmarking. Here's a snip:
Although, it is stripped of the second pipeline that makes the Wildcat II 5110 the strongest OpenGL card in our lineup, the 3DLabs Wildcat II 5000 is still one of the most affordable professional 3D-CAD accelerators. CAD Performance is, most of the time, slightly better than the competitors, and exceptionally low CPU utilization makes sure that the system remains very responsive in all circumstances, even on a single CPU system. The Wildcat II 5000 performs reasonably well in 3D animation software, as long as you do not demand more than gouraud shading. The FireGL-2 and Elsa Gloria III give the "Cat" a beating in the complex shading and texturing benchmarks and are better alternatives for 3D modeling software, in our humble opinion.
The GeForce2 GTS and 3 faired well for their price, and work decently with polygon counts under 100,000. Check out the entire article here.
Source: Ace's Hardware
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