On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:24 PM, David Olofson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't see how one could realistically design anything that'll come close to > a down-clocked low end 3D accelerator in power efficiency. What are you going > to remove, or implement more efficiently...? > > Also, 3D accelerators are incredibly complex beasts, with ditto drivers. (Part > because of many very clever optimizations that both save power and increase > performance!) But, hardcore gamers and other power users need or want them, so > they get developed no matter how insanely overkill and pointless they may > seem. As a result, slightly downscaled versions of that technology is > available dirt cheap to everyone. Why not just use it and be done with it? >
I am often amazed by the broad range of skills on LAD. Well written and easy to understand. Now i think i should have got something chunkier than my very nice GTX 460... speaking of energy, I can always get another 2 for 3X SLI... ;) Loki _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
