> Raystonn wrote: > > [Resending, fell into last night's black hole it seems.] > > I am definately all for increasing the performance of the software renderer. > Eventually the main system processor will be fast enough to perform all of > this without the need for a third party graphics card. The only thing video > cards have today that is really better than the main processor is massive > amounts of memory bandwidth. Since memory bandwidth is increasing rapidly, > I foresee the need for video cards lessening in the future. A properly > implemented and optimized software version of a tile-based "scene-capture" > renderer much like that used in Kyro could perform as well as the latest > video cards in a year or two. This is what I am dabbling with at the > moment.
That's debatable. My personal opinion is that special-purpose graphics hardware will always perform better than a general-purpose CPU. The graphics pipeline is amenable to very specialized optimizations (both in computation and the memory system) that aren't applicable to a general purpose CPU. Of course, looking far enough into the future, all bets are off. -Brian _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
