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To: David R. Parker who wrote (5619)7/20/1998 1:20:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson  Read Replies (4) of 16960
 
Some relevant quotes from Tom's review:

What we can say now though is that Savage3D did certainly
NOT live up to the claims of 'Voodoo2 performance at S3 prices'.
As a matter of fact Savage3D is not by far as fast as Voodoo2,
it's not as fast as Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo Banshee is selling
for almost the same price as Savage3D. Savage3D will be an
interesting competitor to Matrox' G200, since those two seem
pretty close to each other, also in terms of 3D quality. G200 has
an edge with its larger local memory support of 16 MB though.

The real winner of this test is still a dual Voodoo2 in SLI mode. I
estimate that nothing will come close to it until 3Dfx will release
their next Voodoo3 (?) chip.

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Voodoo Banshee shows that it may have been underestimated
by many people, even including me. The 3D performance in
current games is excellent and unless multi-texturing (e.g. needed
by Voodoo2/Banshee for bump mapping) is used, Banshee is faster
or at least as fast as single Voodoo2. Banshee also offers a very
good 2D and DOS game performance and offers an in the
integrated 2D/3D world unique Glide support. These are excellent
reasons why Banshee will most certainly be very successful.
Ultimate gamers will get two Voodoo2 cards, gamers with the eye
on the budget can't go wrong by getting Banshee.

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Apology accepted Tom!
Chip
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