Ideal PC for 3DS Rel.3
17-Apr-94 23:15:51
Sb: #97551-Ideal PC for 3DS Rel.3
Fm: John Tissavary 71054,15
To: Kevin Plew 70550,3426
The DX4's floating point unit is weaker than the Pentiums'. If you read PC
WEEK and other magazines that cater to the "boring" buisness applications
market, like Excel, Word for windows, etc… then I'm sure the DX4 is fine.
Naturally 99.99999999% of the computer market is these integer based apps.
But rendering in 3DS is an FPU intensive operation and I don't believe the DX4
will be as fast as the Pentium. Plus, P5's come in several flavors. I think
the 90mhz P5's are shipping now, and in another 2 months there will be a 100mhz
pentium. Both will surely blow the daylights out of the rickety ol' 486 DX
ANYTHING.
Even though 3DS is not optimized for the Pentium, the P5/60 should be at least
as fast as the DX4, the 66 should be a little faster, and the 90 and 100 should
be no comparison. I haven't benchmarked any of these myself, so this is pure
conjecture based on what I've seen and heard.
John Tissavary (LUNA cie)