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3D overload3D overloadPosted Dec 2, 2009 19:34 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: 3D overload by bojan Parent article: Between Fedora 12 and 13
From what I understand is that for video cards still containing 2D
acceleration those 2D acceleration processors are just little more then copy-n-paste versions of the processors developed over a decade ago when people still cared about 2D performance.
Once popular gaming switched gears from 2D side-scrollers to 3D shoot-em-ups
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3D overload Posted Dec 3, 2009 11:19 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
There's another reason why graphics card vendors only pay attention to 3D performance... because even with old cards like the Radeon r100 series, 2D performance is limited by memory bandwidth these days, not by GPU speed. Screen updates are pretty much instantaneous as long as the CPU can get the data to the card fast enough. Graphics card vendors are paying attention to 3D because there's nothing left for them to do in the 2D arena.
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