Comparison of Intel Pentium III and Pentium 4 Processor Performance White Paper
Impact of DirectX 8.0
Optimized usage of SSE/SSE2 extension and code flow optimization to take advantage of the
new NetBurst micro-architecture, allow graphic drivers to make use of DirectX 8.0
programmable vertex and pixel shaders to produce significant performance gains as illustrated in
Figure 6.
Figure 6: DirectX8 Performance Improvements
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