POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Video Cards : Re: Video Cards Server Time
6 Sep 2024 08:09:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Video Cards  
From: s
Date: 29 Sep 1998 04:20:36
Message: <36108a44.0@news.povray.org>
Ken wrote in message <36107F5C.46A7B090@pacbell.net>...

>  It might make your images look prettier but it will have
>no effect at all on your rendering time. The reason for
>this is because Pov uses very complex mathmatical
>calculations that simply take a lot of CPU power to
>process. The video card on the other hand is a fast,
>almost real time device. It just sits there, waiting on
>your CPU to finish what it's doing, before it passes
>on a little more of the image to be displayed.
>
>Ken Tyler
>

Ken,

Thanx - so it would be better to get a decent 4Mb card and do the 16 Million
color thing :) ?


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