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somattoday at 4:58 AM1 replyview on HN

Now I am curious, how does the voodoo 1 compare with the native o2 gfx?

The o2 used a unified memory scheme so it's graphics were never as fast as it's big brother the octane's impact graphics but because of the unified memory it was a texture power house in comparison, close to a GB of texture memory in 1996 is mind blowing, in comparison the ocatane's impact graphics had 4 mb of texture memory and if you payed out the big bucks for a max impact with double the memory(which was the size of a large motherboard)... you still only got 4mb because the extra memory was basicly sli. and a graphics board that had the reputation of desoldering it's own memory off.


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ChrisGreenHeurtoday at 1:27 PM

Quake 2 runs a bit iffy on an O2, but runs fine on PC with a Voodoo 1