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From: "Miles Buzzing" <miles@guildfrd.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Either I get an answer or the Yaroze gets it!
Date: 7 Mar 1999 09:39:59 GMT
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Ouch! :-)

> from the FAQ:
> http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/yaroze/newmembers/yarfaq.htm
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> What is the GPU cache?
> 
> The GPU has a cache on board, just like the CPU.
>  It uses this to cache textures, and is 2k in size.
>  The effective size of the texture cache changes
> depending on what type of texture you are rendering.
>  A typical speed increase can be 30% for rendering
>  from the texture cache. 
>   
>  Texture resolution
>                Cache size (rendered pixels)
>  4-bit
>                64x64
>  8-bit
>                64x32
>  16-bit
>                32x32
> 
> -- 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Kirk Bender kbender@znet.com http://sj.znet.com/~kbender
> http://www.scea.sony.com/net/yaroze/pages/kbender.html
>