NICE REVIEW.....From VoodooExtreme site:
Video card comparison - 7:20pm MDT- Billy "Wicked" Wilson
Anand (Anand's Tech Page) has just posted the latest edition of his Video Accelerator Comparison Guide. As with all of Anand's stuff, very detailed but not over-cooked. Great stuff here...He covers all of the current hot chips and runs them through everything from SiN to Unreal. Here's a snip (a bit from some of his suggestions):
For Pentium II owners, regardless of clock speed, if you don't mind using two cards to handle your video tasks, the 3Dfx Voodoo2 still seems to be the best solution from an overall performance standpoint. Unfortunately, this doesn't carry on into the value standpoint as you are throwing much money away when you choose to go with a Voodoo2 due to its 3D-only nature.
If money is a definite factor, as it is for many of us, the 3Dfx Banshee is the best overall graphics accelerator for the money. While the best overall graphics accelerator regardless of price may be the nVidia Riva TNT, for the money, it seems as if nothing can beat 3Dfx's Banshee. The only chipset out of the roundup which was never intended to dethrone a previous champ, the Banshee proved to be an excellent performer on all platforms, offering support for Glide based games in addition to Direct3D and OpenGL titles as well as the backing from the largest company of its kind, 3Dfx. |
