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Authored by: Guiyon on May 24, '02 02:35:40PM
Ask an Apple developer whether there are any reasons why QE couldn't have been developed to provide speed increases for ATI RAGE 128 PRO & ULTRA cards. Then ask an Apple business strategist the same question. One will answer no, one will answer yes.

The answer would be no to both. The Rage128's issue is not with bandwidth as it is with the PCI video cards. The issue is with the GPU itself. One of the requirements for QE is to have support for textures that can be sizes other than powers of 2. The Rage128 series does not have this functionality, thus cannot be used for acceleration. The ATI Tech I talked with also mentioned that they did attempt to get a PCI compatible version of QE running but because of bandwidth issues and a general lack of features compared to agp it was slower than using the CPU alone.

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