Re: graphics cards

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Date: 02/19/05


Date: 19 Feb 2005 01:32:13 -0600

In article <wu9Rd.118526$B8.15662@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, dave frost <dj.frost@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>hi all,
>
>can anyone draw parallels between the radeon/geforce cards and the
>available sun graphics cards please, as im not fully up on this side of
>the hardware.
>

Sun low end PCI cards (2D) are mostly ATI chipsets.

High end PCI (3D) are mostly 3DLabs.

Most cards using "Sun" busses (UPA, SBus) were design by Sun.

>This just in general terms, no specifics required, heuristics are fine.
>
>cheers
>
>dave



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