Theoretical Performance
- Floating point: 6.2 billion single precision (32-bit) floating point operations per second
- Perspective transformation: 66 million polygons per second
- With lighting and fog: 36 million polygons per second
- Bézier surface patches: 16 million polygons per second
- Image decompression: 150 million pixels per second
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