As someone who works for a 3D graphics chip manufacturer, I find this
rather surprising; in fact, from what I've read about Trinity it will
*only* work with a 3D accelerator; supposedly there will be no software
rendering included, just OpenGL.
With all the quality options enabled (i.e. a situation similar to ID's
games) I've seen some demos running fifty times faster with my 3D
accelerator than on a 266MHz Pentium-II. I can't see Intel catching
up in the near future unless they build some 3D capabilities into the
CPU itself.
Mark