Texel heeft een artikel online gezet waarin hij de CPU Load van de Riva TNT vergelijkt met die van de Permedia II en Oxygen GMX. De laatste twee gebruiken een geïntegreerde geometrie setup engine. Het is daarom niet erg verbazend dat de CPU Load van de TNT is:
The results show that the TNT chip set uses about 90%-100% of the CPU when running these tests.The Permedia2 and GMX chip sets uses less CPU than the TNT on all three of the tests. The GMX on the CDRS test used about 5% on the 5 poly tests and 20% on the 2 wireframe tests. The Permedia2 used about 40% on the CDRS. On the DRV test the the Permedia2 and GMX are at about 80%. On the Fog City test the Permedia2 and GMX have about the same level of CPU use ~55% .
Clearly the TNT is a CPU hog but is that bad? With the current cpu's ( i.e. Pentium II ) running CAD applications the TNT's CPU load may cause performance problems. With current games it is not so clear. However the next generation of games will be more poly intensive and thus a little more like CAD apps.
