Accordingly, you should consider the most important attributes in graphics cards with respect to your needs. The same attribute, however, is important to a movie special-effects artist who needs to add detailed texture to surfaces to achieve realism. Overall composite 5.5 6.5 6.8 5.4 6.1 All scores are in frames per second. High scores are best.
Bold type denotes first place.
Geometry Performance 3-D objects and scenes are made up of many triangles. Before a 3-D scene can be rendered on the screen, the geometry information describing the scene must be interpreted and computed. The graphics cards we tested implement partial or full acceleration of this process in their hardware. Geometry operations include coordinate transformations, lighting calculations, clipping, and perspective corrections. The Indy3D MCAD 40 and MCAD 150 tests exercised the geometry processors by rendering a complex model of a car engine in wireframe mode.