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Originally posted by Khaldor:

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Originally posted by SomeRhino:
Polygons are processed by the CPU, not GPU. CPU spits equasion solutions into the graphics card, where the image is rendered. That was a bit off-topic. Anyway, the model is excellent eyecandy, but yes, it's not fit to be used in Renegade. Optimize it down to about 1K polys and show us again.

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Per NVidia's Website:
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
A high-performance 3D processor that integrates the entire 3D pipeline (transformation, lighting, setup, and rendering). A GPU offloads all 3D calculations from the CPU, freeing the CPU for other functions such as physics and artificial intelligence.
The technical definition of a GPU is "a single chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that is capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second."...

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