Matrox Mystique (Q do Piotrka ) i inne karty 3D

Autor: _- StryjO -_ (StryjO_at_ComArch.Krakow.PL)
Data: Thu 05 Sep 1996 - 11:49:37 MET DST


> Podziele sie w przyszlym tygodniu jak dostane sampla. Bede mial wersje z 4
> MB SGRAMu.
> Piotrek

Czekamy na ewentualne uwagi, jesli oczywiscie miales juz okazje
testowac ta karte. Na comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video nazekano, ze nie
ma niektorych efektow 3D (nie znam sie na tej terminologii). Ogolnie
na w/w liscie zauwazylem duzo pozytywnych opinii nt. Diamond Stealth
3D 2000. Zamieszczono tam nawet wyniki nastepujacego testu:

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I recently bought a local game magazine which had a 3d card test. As
an extra They also tested a ET6000. These are the benchmarks.
			S3D   MYS   3DX	  VIC   GS6   MED
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Quake 320x200 (fps)	35,5  34,9  32,6  34,8  37,0  36,9
Quake 640x480 (fps)	14,2  14,0  ---	  14,6  16,5  14,4
Winmark 96		27,0  29,5  ---	  27,8  29,2  19,2
Winstone 96		62,1  64,9  66,5  62,9  68,9  61,9
Rockem 
(Direct 3D; in fps)  	11    13    12,5  11,5  12,5  11
Screamer VGA/SVGA	60/60 73/62 11/40 60/64 73/64 58/64
S3D = Stealth 3d / MYS = Matrox Mystique / 3DX = ATI 3d Xpression
VIC = ELSA Victory / GS6 = Video Logic Grafix Star 600 / 
MED = Miro Media 3D
* S3D, VIC, MED with Virge
* 3DX with Rage
* GS6 with ET6000
The GS6 reaults are quite interesting. As expected it does quite well
under Dos and Windows. It's 3D performance is well in the range of the
3D cards, though it only emulates Direct 3D.  At a price of $225 it
has a better price/performance ratio than most 3D cards. OK, I know
that a game magazine is not the best source for hardware tests, and
the Rockem Test is only a simple 3D test and may not really push the
Virge or Rage chipset to their limits. What do you thing? Can anyone
confirm these results? If worst comes to worst a ET6000 user can still
get a Voodoo board as an add-on, which is supposed to have better 3d
performance than the Rage or Virge chipsets.
[a to bylo w jednym z follow-up'ow]
I couldn't say. Was the ET6000 benchmark run in the same color depth
and resolution as the Virge. I have seen earlier comparisons where the
software based version i.e. 2D chipset was run in 8-bit color and the
hardware version in 16-bit depth.
If they are indeed run in the same resolution/color depth then I guess
the Virge isn't much of an accellerator at all. The ET6000 seems to
be one heck of a 2D accellerator. Maybe I should get one?
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Wydawalo mi sie to interesujace wiec zamiescilem na liscie.
(-: KrUtko i zwiENzle - mailto:StryjO_at_ComArch.Krakow.PL :-)


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