Graphic accelerator...

[Patrick Y.]

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this kind of stuff. What exactly does the 3d chip do? ALso, what is GAPI? Please explain it in a way that a dummy like me can understand. TAHNKS!!

Patrick :)

[Fabre]

The 3D chip makes videos play more smoothly (when using a compatible video player, such as The Core Pocket Media Player), and it gives better performance in games that support it - rather than programmers having to write code to generate the 3D view, the chip does it all automatically, and the result is much nicer to look at. Check out this website for some demos of what the chip is capable of:
http://www.powervr.com/Downloads/Demos/index.asp

[Patrick Y.]

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nix50v]

Basically the chip takes the load off the cpu of producing a 3d scene as it is a dedicated processor just to calculate what you will view, thus the central processor of the pda is left to do other tasks such as to calculate the artificial intelligence in a game or the physics of the game. so you can have much more life like games and much better performance as each of the two processors does only the job it was made to do. Furthermore, the chip has other enhancements such as the mentioned above acceleration of video playback. What it means to you is that you can set your processor speed at low and play back a video (utilising the chip to decode it) whereas another pda would have to have a higher processor speed. More battery life then!