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To: Frank Sheridan who wrote (4813)	6/28/1998 5:29:00 PM
From: Joe Pirate	Respond to of 16960

>>I really hate it when I look for info and can't find it. Just spent the last 1/2 hour looking for charts comparing i740 vs. VooDoo 2. Can anybody out there help me? >> Did you try here ? tomshardware.com I wouldn't worry tooo much about i740 or other chips for now, there is toooo much game support for the "VOODOO" brand!!!!!! 3DFX is a 1-trick pony targeted for gamers where as other video chips are being targeted for this application "just put my chip on your motherboard, just bacause" (i.e., Intel, etc.) So, in a nutshell, TDFX will make your cry one way or another, don't put all eggs in here. Would be a nice takeover target, depends on what is in the werks.. Pirate

To: Frank Sheridan who wrote (4813)	6/28/1998 7:20:00 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Frank, Here's a couple of links... techweb.com no graphs but some numbers ... May 25, 1998, TechWeb News 3D Graphics Performance Leaders By Top Five Chips By Benchmark And Interface, 1Q '98 3D Winbench '98 3D PCI 3Dfx Voodoo 2: 860 NVidia Riva 128: 692 ATI Rage Pro Turbo: 671 3Dlabs Permedia II: 538 Rendition V2200: 520 ---- 3D AGP Matrox G200: 817 NVidia Riva 128ZX: 813 Intel I740: 794 ATI Rage Pro Turbo: 767 NVidia Riva 128: 722 --- Egosoft X 3D PCI 3Dfx Voodoo 2: 69.93 Rendition V2100: 58.23 Rendition V2200: 56.90 NVidia Riva 128: 56.43 3Dfx Voodoo: 55.32 --- 3D AGP Intel I740: 76.60 NVidia Riva 128ZX: 73.70 Matrox G200: 72.10 NVidia Riva 128: 64.40 3Dlabs Permedia II: 58.48 Source: Mercury Research Inc. Reflecting a recent industry trend toward benchmarking chips against real-world software, Mercury has tested chips against Ziff-Davis Labs' 3D WinBench '98 and Egosoft's forthcoming game, "X." Go to www.mercury.org on the Web for complete test results. Copyright r 1998 CMP Media Inc. Note: I checked out mercury.org and they charge for the report. This is a little old (MAY 1998)...but worth reading... techweb.com Best Regards, Jim