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From: woan@nowhere (Ronald S Woan)
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Subject: Re: Graphics cards, 768x1024x256
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Date: 19 Feb 91 02:52:06 GMT
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rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
Ron> Actually, you won't see a huge increase in performance using just
Ron> any old TI34010 graphics board, because of the way Windows
Ron> handles graphics.  I believe it was PC Magazine that noted that
Ron> they were only about 20% faster than a good SVGA board.

Ron> If you're doing real graphics work, however, the TI boards shred!

Side note to whomever mail me directly about this and did not get a
reply, my mail gateway was hosed last weekend and things might have
bounced.

Anyway, the PC Magazine issue to look at is the February 26, 1991
edition on pages 218-219. The NEC Multisync Graphics Engine at
1024x768 and 256 colors trounced the nearest competing Super VGA board
running 1024x768 and 16 colors by roughly 50%. Similar results at
800x600x256 vs 800x600x16... Granted that none of the Super VGA baords
tested was an ET4000 based one, the V-Ram VGA which it was tested
against is usually considered to be one of the better performers.
This is not the 500% type speedups that occur in vector or whatever
based applications (CAD), but it is significant considering that even
with double the number of bits being shoved around the coprocessed
boards are running significantly faster than the standard Super VGAs.

Anyway, bottomline 340?0 cards seem to go for $600+. Also an ad in the
same issue for ATI's 8514/Ultra claims to run Windows "24 times faster
than Super-VGA cards" based on PC Magazines WINBENCH 1.1... Hmm...
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