Thresh's Firingsquad is er weer snel bij en heeft een preview van de Metabyte Stepsister TNT SLI. Tresh en Kenn hebben een demonstratie van het ding gezien, het bewijs voor het bestaan van de Stepsister! Ze hebben zelfs benchmarks uit de demonstratie kunnen trekken:
Of course, these benchmarks are designed to show off the technology in the best possible light. This means fill-rate and vertex-limited applications. A game such as Forsaken, which runs at up to 100fps at lower resolutions on standard equipment, is certainly not CPU-limited, and execution time is not held up in the geometry process, as in id's upcoming Quake III arena.You can see this more readily in the two 3DMark tests. Remember, this shouldn't be taken as a complete 3Dmark score, as the only tests run were Game 1 (Race), Game 2 (FPS), and Fill Rate 1 (Single Texture). However, you can see that the benefits of PGP are readily apparent. Again, remember that even Voodoo2 SLI doesn't deliver the ideal 2x performance. Expect a 30-40% increase in framerate for a COU-limited game such as Quake II. As with 3DFX SLI, PGP performs its best at high resolutions, which explains the 1024x768 setup.
Voor meer info moet je ff langs fietsen bij Tresh's Firingsquad.
