> The XVR-1000 is quite a different beast and is MAJC-5200-based (a SUN
> chipset).
>
> I work on the Solaris/Sparc port of a small cross-platform OpenGL
> application that has the following properties: It works fine on most
> MacOSX, Linux or Wintel boxes with NVidia or ATI graphics but on the
> Solaris/Sparc platform I found out that only the XVR-1200 would run that
> application at respectable speed (50-60fps) while on my XVR-1000 it would
> drop to about 7-8fps or less (much more than what benchmark data would
> suggest). I attribute that significant difference to the difference in
> chipsets between the XVR-1200 and XVR-1000: 3DLabs' WildCat IV appears to
> be a more general-purpose 3D chipset while the MAJC-5200 chipset has a
> different target market.. So, this result is not suprising considering
> that the source port I'm working on came from general-purpose machines
> (Mac's, PC's..).

It is interesting to see you say about your dissapointment with XVR-1000
performance. I got to play with an XVR-500 not that long ago and was
surprised at just how spritely it was relative to the XVR-1000.
Considering the amount of money it cost us when it was launched, the
performance has been very dissapointing. The Sun document referenced by
the other poster is interesting in that it shows a significant
performance deficit from what i would have expected previously.