The SUN Microsystems XVR-4000 Graphics Accelerator
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RE: The SUN Microsystems XVR-4000 Graphics Accelerator
At the request of @swarmik, who's also a member of this forum, I ran his GPU benchmarking software "GPUbench" on the XVR-4000, in order to gauge it's actual performance.

To quote @swarmik, "It seems that this was not a universal hi-end solution but rather just something for very specific market".

It seems that really high quality antialiasing is this card's strong point, as it renders a beautiful output (better than that of the V12), when rendering Quake3, even though it doesn't have the best frame rate.

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Here are some examples of what one of the tests looks like:

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The initial results were dismally poor, as we were initially unaware that the XVR-4000 was setup to automatically render with 16x forced antialiasing, which resulted in rather poor performance in the initial battery of tests.

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After disabling the forced multi-sampling, the XVR-4000 obtained the following results:

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Here are the results from the Tezro's V12, for comparative purposes:

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The results of these tests will be reflected on his site, where you can too download his benchmarking software. Here's the link to his site: http://swarm.cz/gpubench/
(This post was last modified: 12-04-2019, 08:39 PM by Irinikus.)
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