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To: Jeff Lins who wrote (6022)	8/5/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: Jeff Lins	Respond to of 16960

VE posted a link to AGN showing the increase in frame rate for a Matrox G200 in DX6 with optimized drivers, vs DX5. V2 should get some gains as well, closing in on the TNT numbers from the Gamespot review (I mentioned the driver issue in my email to them as well). Looks like the Matrox gained at least 10% with DX6. ----- TNT Claims to be the best. What a bunch of jerks... :) From AGN: NVIDIA has release a press release today, claiming that tha TNT is the number one 3D graphics processor in the world. What they did not say is that the Voodoo2 was using Directx 5.0 drivers within a Directx 6.0 core, hardly what I call equal ground for testing. Here is the info from this mornings press release: NVIDIA(R) Corporation announced today that its RIVA TNT (was rated) the highest performing 3D processor in the world, as measured by Computer Gaming World's 3D GameGauge performance index, an industry leading authority on PC gaming. The RIVA TNT, which was tested at the offices of Computer Gaming World in San Francisco, achieved close to a 25% improvement in frame rates over the previous leading 3D graphics processor. This unprecedented score from the 3D GameGauge test was attained on an Intel Pentium II 400 MHz system owned by Computer Gaming World. ''We took a first look at RIVA TNT in our offices last week,'' said Dave Salvator, Technical Editor at Computer Gaming World, a Ziff-Davis publication. ''This evaluation board and alpha software drivers outpaced a Voodoo2 board in all six tests in our 3D GameGauge methodology, and achieved the highest overall score of any 2D/3D chip we've seen to date. This fall, RIVA TNT is definitely one to watch'' ''This first look from Computer Gaming World marks a significant milestone as we deliver on the promise of outstanding visual quality and unprecedented performance of the RIVA TNT architecture,'' said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at NVIDIA. ''We will continue to invest in the RIVA TNT to deliver even higher performance in the future for both gaming and business.''

To: Jeff Lins who wrote (6022)	8/5/1998 12:44:00 PM
From: Jeff Lins	Respond to of 16960

Cyrellis on Banshee cyrellis.com There is mention that it will not do DVD? I thought it could do this via daughter card? Don't like seeing the word "failed" in several places. Our worlds fastest 2D seems to be very conditional:>>>> "The 2D scores that the Alpha Banshee posted were very good, almost equaling the new Millenium G200 2D/3D card from traditional 2D kings Matrox"<<<<<< They also do a disclosure, saying that the card is using SGRAM while street boards will likely use SDRAM. I believe that this will also be the case for TNT, though Gamespot didn't mention this.. Several sets of benchmarks... Jeff

To: Jeff Lins who wrote (6022)	8/5/1998 2:20:00 PM
From: Simon Cardinale	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

TNT Blows... Voodoo Away? Hope they will check their figures. The only thing that I can think of to explain the numbers would be that they tested on DX 6, with unoptimized V2 Drivers. Also, the resolution of 8x6 may have something to do with it...are other game gauge scores done at 6x4? Also noted that the TNT board uses SGRAM. Doubt the final cheap street boards will use it... Gameguage is resolution dependant. Most people run it at 640x480, but they used 800x600. They've e-mailed people who complained about inaccurate numbers explaining this. The review says With dual rendering pipelines and a spec'd maximum fill rate of 190Mpixels/sec, TNT may have the right combination of features and performance to be this fall's graphics champion. What happened to 250Mpixels/sec? Guess they couldn't clock it that high or get the right memory in time. They go on to say To put TNT's performance in perspective, a single Voodoo2 board can deliver a maximum fill rate of about 90Mpixels/sec Of course for a multitextured game this becomes an effective 180Mpixels/sec. But that would take a sentence to explain. Skip it! Simon