Are quads rendered as fast as triangles

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I thought the video cards where optimized for triangles. I’m new. That’s just what a read in one book. What do you know about this?

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You can probably bet that quads are rendered by the driver as 2 triangles anyway, so they should be just as fast.

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It’s better to work with triangles. With my card I had problems with working with quads. But this is a thing that is about each card. But the standard is working with triangles.

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3D accelerators loves Triangles strips (or fans)…
Check out on 3d hardware sites, they should tell you what the favorite input of todays 3d cards.