I have a large collection of graphics cards, and now have a little K6-3+ rig I slapped together. I've been messing with it, trying out games, trying out various graphics cards...
I've been wondering if certain cards were more 3dnow/super 7 friendly. Or which cards drivers have actually improved over the years.
One of my biggest questions was which card offers the best DirectDraw performance for older games such as Diablo 2. Directdraw performance can be the difference between the game being playable or not on these old systems.
So, I got Winbench 98 out and ran its DirectDraw benchmarks on 7 different cards. It would've been 9 but the Savage 4 and TNT 2 would not cooperate for whatever reason (I'm going to assume due to the 112Mhz FSB and resulting higher AGP clock.)
Cards compared were:
Matrox Millenium G400MAX
Matrox Mystique
ATI Radeon 7200 SE VIVO (200/200)
Rendition Verite V2200
Rendition Verite V1000
S3 Virge 325
SiS 6326
3dfx Voodoo3 2000
A link to the ridiculously huge HTML file created from Excel:
http://home.new.rr.com/swaaye/wb98res.htm
The results are fairly interesting. Radeon isn't all that. Verite is a beast of a DDraw card for its time.....SiS is Sad.
I've been wondering if certain cards were more 3dnow/super 7 friendly. Or which cards drivers have actually improved over the years.
One of my biggest questions was which card offers the best DirectDraw performance for older games such as Diablo 2. Directdraw performance can be the difference between the game being playable or not on these old systems.
So, I got Winbench 98 out and ran its DirectDraw benchmarks on 7 different cards. It would've been 9 but the Savage 4 and TNT 2 would not cooperate for whatever reason (I'm going to assume due to the 112Mhz FSB and resulting higher AGP clock.)
Cards compared were:
Matrox Millenium G400MAX
Matrox Mystique
ATI Radeon 7200 SE VIVO (200/200)
Rendition Verite V2200
Rendition Verite V1000
S3 Virge 325
SiS 6326
3dfx Voodoo3 2000
A link to the ridiculously huge HTML file created from Excel:
http://home.new.rr.com/swaaye/wb98res.htm
The results are fairly interesting. Radeon isn't all that. Verite is a beast of a DDraw card for its time.....SiS is Sad.