Old School Monday 3D Cards Champions

Time for another Old School Monday - this week, Online Reviews Editor Michael Brown takes us back to boot May 1998's cover story, 3D Cards of Champions: Intel hoped its i740 processor would convince graphics-card manufacturers to switch to AGP from the PCI bus.

AGP would eventually have its day in the sun, but when it came to the i740, Intel had effectively turned left as the rest of the industry turned right: Game developers began producing games that relied on very large textures. Since the i740 stored textures in system---versus local---memory, as the competition's 3D accelerators did, the i740 delivered extremely poorly benchmark performance.

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http://respectedadmins.com/other/old-school-monday-3d-cards-champions/