Sensory Fiend

I was just looking up a benchmark that is saying that intel macs dont run open GL too well:

http://images.macologist.org/bench/openglsoftware.png

can anybody shed any light on this or any advice for the best mac laptop for high frame rates and resolution?

intel-macs-bad-open-gl

scrap what you just read. Why cant i delete this post???

Notice the title of this graph: "OpenGL Viewer - Software Renderer".

Doing OpenGL rendering in software is always slow. What matters for

realtime stuff is the graphics card and intel mac pros have quite good

> I was just looking up a benchmark that is saying that intel macs dont run open GL too well:

> can anybody shed any light on this or any advice for the best mac laptop for high frame rates and resolution?

Notice the title of this graph: "OpenGL Viewer - Software Renderer".
Doing OpenGL rendering in software is always slow.  What matters for
realtime stuff is the graphics card and intel mac pros have quite good
graphics cards.

On 2/12/07, Kit Webster  wrote:
>
> I was just looking up a benchmark that is saying that intel macs dont run open GL too well:
>
> http://images.macologist.org/bench/openglsoftware.png
>
> can anybody shed any light on this or any advice for the best mac laptop for high frame rates and resolution?
>
>


i'm working on quite a large project which uses a large number of opengl shapes triggered by poly~... with a 2.16ghz core duo mbp / ati X1600 256 ram.

i've yet to implement textures (which imo can eat the fps), but most of the patches currently run around 50 fps!

and as wesley mentions software rendering is bound to be slo...

intel macs = bad open GL