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Check out these benchmarks for the current crop of 3D
cards. Unlike other benchmark articles, I don't ignore 3D
applications. Users of high-end 3D applications use these cards at
home, too, and it seems like everyone and their sister can write an
article reviewing game performance.
The Simple Answer: Current reigning champion is nVidia.
Why? Exceptional Direct3D and OpenGL performance in games
and applications, DVD playback, TV output, and more.
Available from a variety of card manufacturers, unlike some chipsets
of late. Sorry, Matrox, but OpenGL performance in applications is
important to me, and I don't appreciate being lied to about it.
The question is not whether or not to
buy this new nVidia chipset. The questions are
"When?" "How much?", and "Whose card
are you going to buy?" Personally, I'd like to have
Maxtreme drivers for this chipset, and I'd like to have 3D
glasses, but I'd also like to have DVD playback, video out,
and video capture... not to mention 64 mb on board! Can any
card ever have it all? We'll see...
Creative
Guillemot
- 3D Prophet offers 32MB onboard RAM, a
350MHz RAMDAC and TV-Out capabilities for excellent image
playback of DVD titles or games.
- DDR RAM stands for Double Data Rate RAM
(as opposed to SDR RAM, which stands for Single Data
Rate). DDR RAM doubles the data transfer rate per clock.
It can go faster because it performs two instructions per
RAM clock instead of a single instruction for SDR. 3D
Prophet DDR(tm) will be available before Christmas at a
retail price of about $ 100 more than the 3D Prophet.
Asus ?
Elsa - Erazor X - First
Graphics Board for PC Gaming Community With Full Geometry,
Transform and Lighting And, when combined with ELSA's 3D
REVELATOR glasses, gamers will for the first time experience
scenes in photo-realistic quality. The ERAZOR X offers 32 MB
of rapid synchronous DRAMs and a 350MHz. RAMDAC. Display
refresh rates of up to 200 Hz can be freely defined in steps
of 1 Hz with ELSA Settings, even with ultra-high
resolutions.
Canopus
Getting out of the graphics card market prematurely?
Leadtek
- NVIDIA GeForce256 256-bit GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
- 32/64MB high-speed SDRAM on board (5ns or faster)
- 350MHz RAMDAC, up to 2048x1536 32-bit resolution
- AGP 4X with Fast Write (30% faster transfer speed)
- Transform, Lighting, Setup, Rendering Quad-Engine design
- Drivers optimized for Pentium III SSE™ and AMD
3D NOW™
- OpenGL ICD and DirectX7.0 Support
- DVD package
- TV-Output, optional DVI connector for digital flat panel
- Overclocking Utilities
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Accel Graphics
Asus - Here comes the
nVidia geForce 256!
ATI -
The leaders in video playback performance.
Canopus - Here
comes the nVidia geForce 256!
Cardex
Creative Labs - Here
comes the nVidia geForce 256!
Diamond Multimedia -
S3 bought them.
ELSA
- Here comes the nVidia geForce 256! Revelator is cool, but will it
work with a 3D app? Will the Maxtreme drivers be offered for the
geForce 256?
Guillemot - Here
comes the nVidia geForce 256! Also available, the Cougar, a
TNT2 M64 solution with video capture and editing software included.
Intel
Intergraph Intense 3D
- WILDCAT!
Leadtek - Here comes
the nVidia geForce 256!
Matrox
- Next up at bat, Millenium G400. All around good... except
the OpenGL support is still crap!
STB/Symetric
- 3Dfx bought them.
3Dfx -
STB's new owner.
3DLabs -
Where is the GLint Permedia 3? Worse yet, where is that Permedia
2 reference card you promised me a E3 YEARS AGO, Neil?
Trident
- I am only providing this link for driver hunters. I can't
recommend their hardware for power/performance. Maybe for price.
VideoLogic -
VIDEOLOGIC NEON 250 NOW SHIPPING - Board Specification Upgraded To
32MB, Price Held, Upgrade Program Announced.
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