Let's hop in the time machine and look at John Carmack's .plan Intel i740 —- Good throughput, good fillrate, good quality, good features. A very competent chip

Let's hop in the time machine and look at John Carmack's .plan Intel i740 —- Good throughput, good fillrate, good quality, good features. A very competent chip. I wish intel great success with the 740. I think that it firmly establishes the baseline that other companies (especially the ones that didn’t even make this list) will be forced to come up to. Voodoo rendering quality, better than voodoo1 performance, good 3D on a desktop integration, and all textures come from AGP memory so there is no texture swapping at all. Lack of 24 bit rendering is the only negative of any kind I can think of. Their current MCD OpenGL on NT runs quake 2 pretty well. I have seen their ICD driver on ’95 running quake 2, and it seems to be progressing well. The chip has the potential to outperform voodoo 1 across the board, but 3DFX has more highly tuned drivers right now, giving it a performance edge. I expect intel will get the performance up before releasing the ICD. It is worth mentioning that of all the drivers we have tested, intel’s MCD was the only driver that did absolutely everything flawlessly. I hope that their ICD has a similar level of quality (it’s a MUCH bigger job). An 8mb i740 will be a very good setup for 3D development work.