Faster than Moore’s Law
Peak
Performance
(D's/sec)
Year
HP CRX
SGI Iris
SGI GT
HP VRX
Stellar GS1000
SGI VGX
HP TVRX
SGI SkyWriter
SGI
E&S
F300
One-pixel
polygons (~10M polygons @ 30Hz)
SGI
RE2
RE1
Megatek
86
88
90
92
94
96
98
00
10
4
10
5
10
6
10
7
10
8
10
9
UNC Pxpl4
UNC Pxpl5
UNC/HP PixelFlow
Flat
shading
Gouraud
shading
Antialiasing
Slope ~2.4x/year
(Moore's Law ~ 1.7x/year)
SGI
IR
E&S
Harmony
SGI
R-Monster
Division VPX
E&S Freedom
Accel/VSIS
Voodoo
Glint
Division
Pxpl6
PC Graphics
Textures
SGI
Cobalt
Nvidia TNT
3DLabs
Graph
courtesy of Prof. John Poulton, Univ. North Carolina
GeForce
10
4
10
5
10
6
10
7
10
8
10
9
ATI
Radeon 256