at the microprocessor is optimized for. This tends to increase the number of instructions that the processor can perform in a given time 32-bit ColorThe Voodoo5 5500’s dual 3dfx VSA-100 chips support full 32-bit color accuracy, meaning that is can display approximately 32 thousand different colors on your monitor. The dual VSA-100 chips are able to deliver a maximum 2D rendering ability 2048 pixels by 2048 pixels, displaying amazing detail of 2D images. IV GeForce2 UltraThe GeForce2 Ultra Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is NVIDIA’s latest 3D accelerator. The card features a 250MHz GeForce processor, 64MB of Double Data Rate (DDR) SDRAM running at 230MHz (giving an "effective" clock speed of 460MHz).250MHz GeForce250MHz GeForce processor can render 31 million triangles per second . Fill RateThe GeForce2 Ultra has a fill rate of 2 GigaTexel’s per second . FSAAGeForce2 Ultra uses FSAA technology. The GeForce2 Ultra’s use of FSAA does not include a T-Buffer and does not offer depth-of-field blur, soft-shadows or soft reflections. The GeForce2 Ultra does include a feature like to Z-Buffer to increase realism, the feature is called transform and lighting (T&L).How does transform work? Transform performance dictates how precisely software developers can "tessellate" the 3D objects they create, how many objects they can put in a scene and how sophisticated the 3D world itself can be. To tessellate an object means to divide it into smaller geometric objects, such as polygons. The images below are examples of a sphere tessellated by different degrees:Each of the images above represents the same sphere, but the image on the far right is clearly the most realistic of the three. It has been carved up into five times as many polygons as the sphere on the far left, and therefore requires five times the transform performance as the sphere on the left. That may not seem very important for one sphere, but because hundreds t...
