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To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (7126)	9/14/1998 3:05:00 AM
From: Simon Cardinale	Read Replies (1) of 16960

New benchmarks on TNT with lowered clockspeed. Check out bluesnews.com He recently got the new bios updates for the STB VELOCITY 4400 which lowers its clockspeed to the correct speed (lower). Retail boxes have this BIOS installed already. I think he had a board running at 95Mhz, and now it's running at 90Mhz, but I'm not positive. He also compares it to a 90Mhz Canopus TNT. They're basically identical (which is why I think the STB board is at 90Mhz, in addition to reviews which said that this would be the final speed of all TNT boards). Naturally he compares it to Voodoo2 and V2 SLI. If you look at the old (95Mhz) becnhmarks the STB TNT was edging out a single Voodoo2 in many cases. Now (90Mhz) it's just the opposite. Neither speed difference is significant in gameplay, of course, but as a marketing matter TNT can not claim to be faster than Voodoo2 in Quake or Quake2. Since future D3D titles will likely take advantage of single pass multitexturing (now that DX6 has added support) I think we can look forward to V2 being the king (let alone V2 SLI) for a while longer. Simon

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