Test of historical video cards: woman s world magazine recipes Part 1 (from the GeForce Voodoo2, 1998-1999) | Cnews.cz
Today, the situation on the market of graphics cards mostly boring. Leaving only two manufacturers who maintain their market share and developing new GPU too hurry. But it was not always so. This test is going back to 1998, when the balance of power was not so clear.
The first graphics card capable of 3D acceleration began to appear sometime in 1995. Most of them did not offer to software rendering too much extra performance and image quality is not worth much.
The revolution came about a year later with the advent of 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics. Competition, of course, slept and soon appeared on the market woman s world magazine recipes a lot of various 3D graphics card. Unlike woman s world magazine recipes Voodoo was a complete solution, including core and 2D. Although it was elegant, but the performance of most of them far below the level Voodoo Graphics. Only with Nvidia Riva 128 Voodoo was able to overcome - but at a price substantially weaker image quality as a year's delay.
The test begins with the second-generation 3D accelerators, because only one has enough power for smooth woman s world magazine recipes playing old classics. It also games from this period - such as Quake or Unreal Tournament - have built-in timedemo, so they are easy to use for benchmarking.
Testing older graphic with hindsight brings to classical to reviews (from the time of publication HW) a lot of advantages. Using a powerful processor tuned drivers and shows the true potential woman s world magazine recipes of different graphics. It is also interesting to try to run newer games. By then prove whether a particular GPU architecture was really as timeless as alleged in the introduction. Parameters woman s world magazine recipes graphics cards Voodoo2 Voodoo2 8 megabytes 12 megabytes 12 megabytes AGP Voodoo2 Voodoo2 SLI 12 megabytes Banshee PCI core SSTV2 SSTV2 SSTV2 2x SSTV2 Banshee Manufacturing Process 350 nm 350 nm 350 nm 350 nm 350 nm Core Size ----- transistor 4 million 4 million, 4 million, 8 million, 4 million core clock of 90 MHz 90 MHz 90 MHz 90 MHz 100 MHz ROP / RBE 1 1 1 2 1 TEXTURE Unit 2 2 2 4 1 8 MB memory 12 megabytes EDO EDO EDO 24 12 megabytes MB EDO 16MB SDRAM memory clock speed of 90 MHz 90 MHz 90 MHz 90 MHz 100 MHz Bus Width 192 bit 192 bit 192 bit 384 bit 128 bit memory bandwidth of 2.16 gigabytes / 2.16 GB / 2.16 GB / s 4 , 32 GB / with 1.6 GB / s fillram (pixels) 90 MP / s MP 90/90 MP / s 180 MP / s 100 MP / s fillram (texture) 180 MT / s 180 MT / s 180 MT / with 360 MT / s 100 MT / s PCI 1x PCI AGP PCI PCI TDP (estimate) 15 W 15 W 15 W 30 W 12 W DirectX 6 6 6 6 6 OpenGL 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 Banshee AGP Velocity 100 Velocity 200 Voodoo3 2000 PCI Voodoo3 2000 AGP Core Banshee Avenger Avenger Avenger Avenger Manufacturing Process 350 nm 250 nm 250 nm 250 nm 250 nm Core Size ----- transistor 4 million 8.2 million 8.2 million 8.2 million 8 2 million core clock of 100 MHz 143 MHz 125 MHz 143 MHz 143 MHz ROP / RBE 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 TEXTURE Unit (2) 2 2 2 Memory 16MB SGRAM SGRAM 8 megabytes 16 megabytes 16 megabytes SGRAM SGRAM 16MB SDRAM Memory Clock 100 MHz 143 MHz 125 MHz 143 MHz 143 MHz Bus Width 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit memory bandwidth of 1.6 gigabytes / 2.28 GB / s 2 GB / 2.28 GB / s 2, 28 gigabytes / s fillram (pixels) 100 MP / s 143 MP / s 125 MP / s 143 MP / s 143 MP / s fillram (texture) 100 MT / s 143 (286) MT / s 250 MT / s 286 MT / s 286 MT / s bus AGP 1x AGP 2x AGP 2x PCI AGP 2x TDP (estimate) 12 W 10 W 9 W 10 W 10 W DirectX 6 6 6 6 6 OpenGL 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 3500 Voodoo3 Voodoo3 woman s world magazine recipes 3500 Riva TNT Riva TNT2 Riva TNT2 m64 core Avenger Avenger NV4 NV5 NV5 Manufacturing Process 250 nm 250 nm 350 nm 250 nm 250 nm Core Size - 130 mm ^ 2 ^ 2 90 mm 90 mm ^ 2 transistors 8.2 million 8.2 million 7 miles . $ 15 million to 15 million core clock 183 MHz 200 MHz 90 MHz 120 MHz 125 MHz ROP / RBE 1 1 2 2 2 Texturing Unit 2 2 2 2 2 Memory 16MB SDRAM 16MB SDRAM 16MB SDRAM 32 MB SDRAM 32 megabytes SDRAM Memory Clock 183 MHz 200 MHz 110 MHz 125 MHz 143 MHz Bus Width 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit 64 bit 128 bit memory bandwidth woman s world magazine recipes of 2.92 gigabytes woman s world magazine recipes / with 3.2 GB / 1,76 GB / 1 GB / s 2 , 28 GB / s fillram (pixels) 183 MP / MP 200/180 with MP / s MP 240/250 MP / s fillram (texture) 366 MT / s to 400 MT / s 180 MT / s 240 MT / s 250 MT / s bus AGP 2x AGP 2x AGP 2x AGP 4x AGP 4x TDP (estimate) 12 W 13 W 15 W 12 W 12 W DirectX 6 6 6 6 6 OpenGL 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.2 Riva TNT2 Ultra GeForce 256 SDR G200 G400 MAX Rage XL NV10 core NV5 MGA MGA-G200-G400 Rage XL Manufacturing Process 250 nm 220 nm 350 nm 250 nm 350 nm Core Size 90 mm 2125 mm ^ 2 ^ --- Transistor 15 million, 23 million - 9 million - Takt core 150 MHz 120 MHz 150 MHz 85 MHz 83 MHz ROP / RBE 2 4 1 2 1 TEXTURE Unit 2 4 1 2 1 32 MB SDRAM Memory 32 MB SDRAM 8 megabytes 32 megabytes of SDRAM SGRAM 8 megabytes SDRAM Memory Clock 183 MHz 166 MHz 113 MHz 200 MHz 83 MHz Bus Width 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit 64 bit 64 bit memory bandwidth of 2.92 gigabytes / 2.65 GB / s 0,9 GB / with 3.2 GB / 0.66 GB / s fillram (pixels) 300 MP / s 480 MP / s 85 MP / s 300 MP / s 83 MP / s fillram (texture) 300 MT / s 480 MT / s 85 MT / s 300 MT / s 83 MT / s bus AGP 4x AGP 4x AGP 2x AGP 4x AGP 2x TDP (estimate) 15 W 20 W 5 W 15 W 2 W DirectX 6 7 5 6 6 OpenGL 1.2 1.2 1.0 1.1 1.1 Rag
Today, the situation on the market of graphics cards mostly boring. Leaving only two manufacturers who maintain their market share and developing new GPU too hurry. But it was not always so. This test is going back to 1998, when the balance of power was not so clear.
The first graphics card capable of 3D acceleration began to appear sometime in 1995. Most of them did not offer to software rendering too much extra performance and image quality is not worth much.
The revolution came about a year later with the advent of 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics. Competition, of course, slept and soon appeared on the market woman s world magazine recipes a lot of various 3D graphics card. Unlike woman s world magazine recipes Voodoo was a complete solution, including core and 2D. Although it was elegant, but the performance of most of them far below the level Voodoo Graphics. Only with Nvidia Riva 128 Voodoo was able to overcome - but at a price substantially weaker image quality as a year's delay.
The test begins with the second-generation 3D accelerators, because only one has enough power for smooth woman s world magazine recipes playing old classics. It also games from this period - such as Quake or Unreal Tournament - have built-in timedemo, so they are easy to use for benchmarking.
Testing older graphic with hindsight brings to classical to reviews (from the time of publication HW) a lot of advantages. Using a powerful processor tuned drivers and shows the true potential woman s world magazine recipes of different graphics. It is also interesting to try to run newer games. By then prove whether a particular GPU architecture was really as timeless as alleged in the introduction. Parameters woman s world magazine recipes graphics cards Voodoo2 Voodoo2 8 megabytes 12 megabytes 12 megabytes AGP Voodoo2 Voodoo2 SLI 12 megabytes Banshee PCI core SSTV2 SSTV2 SSTV2 2x SSTV2 Banshee Manufacturing Process 350 nm 350 nm 350 nm 350 nm 350 nm Core Size ----- transistor 4 million 4 million, 4 million, 8 million, 4 million core clock of 90 MHz 90 MHz 90 MHz 90 MHz 100 MHz ROP / RBE 1 1 1 2 1 TEXTURE Unit 2 2 2 4 1 8 MB memory 12 megabytes EDO EDO EDO 24 12 megabytes MB EDO 16MB SDRAM memory clock speed of 90 MHz 90 MHz 90 MHz 90 MHz 100 MHz Bus Width 192 bit 192 bit 192 bit 384 bit 128 bit memory bandwidth of 2.16 gigabytes / 2.16 GB / 2.16 GB / s 4 , 32 GB / with 1.6 GB / s fillram (pixels) 90 MP / s MP 90/90 MP / s 180 MP / s 100 MP / s fillram (texture) 180 MT / s 180 MT / s 180 MT / with 360 MT / s 100 MT / s PCI 1x PCI AGP PCI PCI TDP (estimate) 15 W 15 W 15 W 30 W 12 W DirectX 6 6 6 6 6 OpenGL 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 Banshee AGP Velocity 100 Velocity 200 Voodoo3 2000 PCI Voodoo3 2000 AGP Core Banshee Avenger Avenger Avenger Avenger Manufacturing Process 350 nm 250 nm 250 nm 250 nm 250 nm Core Size ----- transistor 4 million 8.2 million 8.2 million 8.2 million 8 2 million core clock of 100 MHz 143 MHz 125 MHz 143 MHz 143 MHz ROP / RBE 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 TEXTURE Unit (2) 2 2 2 Memory 16MB SGRAM SGRAM 8 megabytes 16 megabytes 16 megabytes SGRAM SGRAM 16MB SDRAM Memory Clock 100 MHz 143 MHz 125 MHz 143 MHz 143 MHz Bus Width 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit memory bandwidth of 1.6 gigabytes / 2.28 GB / s 2 GB / 2.28 GB / s 2, 28 gigabytes / s fillram (pixels) 100 MP / s 143 MP / s 125 MP / s 143 MP / s 143 MP / s fillram (texture) 100 MT / s 143 (286) MT / s 250 MT / s 286 MT / s 286 MT / s bus AGP 1x AGP 2x AGP 2x PCI AGP 2x TDP (estimate) 12 W 10 W 9 W 10 W 10 W DirectX 6 6 6 6 6 OpenGL 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 3500 Voodoo3 Voodoo3 woman s world magazine recipes 3500 Riva TNT Riva TNT2 Riva TNT2 m64 core Avenger Avenger NV4 NV5 NV5 Manufacturing Process 250 nm 250 nm 350 nm 250 nm 250 nm Core Size - 130 mm ^ 2 ^ 2 90 mm 90 mm ^ 2 transistors 8.2 million 8.2 million 7 miles . $ 15 million to 15 million core clock 183 MHz 200 MHz 90 MHz 120 MHz 125 MHz ROP / RBE 1 1 2 2 2 Texturing Unit 2 2 2 2 2 Memory 16MB SDRAM 16MB SDRAM 16MB SDRAM 32 MB SDRAM 32 megabytes SDRAM Memory Clock 183 MHz 200 MHz 110 MHz 125 MHz 143 MHz Bus Width 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit 64 bit 128 bit memory bandwidth woman s world magazine recipes of 2.92 gigabytes woman s world magazine recipes / with 3.2 GB / 1,76 GB / 1 GB / s 2 , 28 GB / s fillram (pixels) 183 MP / MP 200/180 with MP / s MP 240/250 MP / s fillram (texture) 366 MT / s to 400 MT / s 180 MT / s 240 MT / s 250 MT / s bus AGP 2x AGP 2x AGP 2x AGP 4x AGP 4x TDP (estimate) 12 W 13 W 15 W 12 W 12 W DirectX 6 6 6 6 6 OpenGL 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.2 Riva TNT2 Ultra GeForce 256 SDR G200 G400 MAX Rage XL NV10 core NV5 MGA MGA-G200-G400 Rage XL Manufacturing Process 250 nm 220 nm 350 nm 250 nm 350 nm Core Size 90 mm 2125 mm ^ 2 ^ --- Transistor 15 million, 23 million - 9 million - Takt core 150 MHz 120 MHz 150 MHz 85 MHz 83 MHz ROP / RBE 2 4 1 2 1 TEXTURE Unit 2 4 1 2 1 32 MB SDRAM Memory 32 MB SDRAM 8 megabytes 32 megabytes of SDRAM SGRAM 8 megabytes SDRAM Memory Clock 183 MHz 166 MHz 113 MHz 200 MHz 83 MHz Bus Width 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit 64 bit 64 bit memory bandwidth of 2.92 gigabytes / 2.65 GB / s 0,9 GB / with 3.2 GB / 0.66 GB / s fillram (pixels) 300 MP / s 480 MP / s 85 MP / s 300 MP / s 83 MP / s fillram (texture) 300 MT / s 480 MT / s 85 MT / s 300 MT / s 83 MT / s bus AGP 4x AGP 4x AGP 2x AGP 4x AGP 2x TDP (estimate) 15 W 20 W 5 W 15 W 2 W DirectX 6 7 5 6 6 OpenGL 1.2 1.2 1.0 1.1 1.1 Rag
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