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Even so, graphics-wise, the Light and Newport boards weren't much better than contemporary PC SVGA cards that had integrated BitBLT functionality. The majority of 3D rendering was CPU-driven in those cases.
Depth buffering was faked on XL/Newport boards on the Indy by loading a 32-bit pixel mask register, meaning any 3D geometry had to be drawn in horizontal 32-pixel spans, max. That's all you got unless you were using painter's algorithm and ate the overdraw cost.
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Things weren't all sunshine and roses even with the XZ board on the Indy that provided accelerated 3D. Anecdotally, a top-end R5000 CPU module was better off with a 24-bit XL board, since the CPU could transform and light geometry faster than the XZ board itself.
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The Indigo 2 and Octane had similar rough aspects, graphically: The boilerplate SI/SE and SSI/SSE lacked hardware-accelerated texturing. On the I2, only the High IMPACT and Maximum IMPACT boards have hardware-accelerated texturing.
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