alt Hacker NewsAs someone on the other side... the difference was between 166 "regular" VS 133 MMX. And in less than two years it became irrelevant: '97 for MMX, '99 fo GeForce 256.
As someone on the other side... the difference was between 166 "regular" VS 133 MMX. And in less than two years it became irrelevant: '97 for MMX, '99 fo GeForce 256.
MMX in did not become irrelevant with the GeForce 256. Hardware video decoding was only in its infancy at the time and even the highest end GPUs only supported motion compensation acceleration for decoding only at best. Non-display image processing on the GPU was heavily bottlenecked by very slow read-back speeds from the GPU to the CPU across the AGP bus.