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Your Source for Performance News and Reviews!Effects of 3D cards on Unreal Performance
-how much difference between Voodoo 1 , Voodoo 2 and Rage ? -
Published: 10/5/983D CARDS HEAD TO HEAD The following tests are quite interesting since they were performed on the same machine with two different 3D cards : the ATI Rage Pro 6MB and the Canopus Pure3D LX 6MB.
The machine characteristics are as follows:
Power Macintosh G3/333
PPC750 @ 333Mhz
1MB Cache @ 222Mhz
100MB allocated to Unreal, full install
VM off
Mac OS 8.5f7
As a the person who sent the benchmarks noted, "Comparing the Voodoo 1 and Rage Pro numbers on the same machine makes one thing clear. If you want to get the most out of this game, don't waste
your time with a Rage Pro card. There's lots of Voodoo 1 cards available for less than $100 that will provide twice the framerate and better looking graphics. - MK" [MK, please tell us which ATI drivers were used- Frank]This reader also commented about the IX 3D Ultimate Rez card : "ix3d Ultimate Rez RAVE: don't bother. There's so many rendering errors and the performance is so abysmal that it makes the software render engine look like a Voodoo II card. If people are dying to try it, you must set NonATI to true but there's really no way to get acceptable looking images. It's most likely driver issues rather than hardware issues. Complain to ixMicro."
I am now especially looking for benchmarks on G3 equipped Mac picasso cards or Matrox 3D cards. If you have one of these cards, get the xlr8Unreal FPs Toolkit 1.04 and send us the benchmarks. I am now working on a graphic that will show different 3D cards performance.- Frank
Voodoo Cards performance comparison The following graphics demonstrate the benefit of adding a Voodoo 2 card to your machine. These tests were performed before we had theUnreal FPS Toolit at our disposition. Nevertheless, we can see very well what a voodoo2 card is capable of.
Other Site Unreal Info:
- Game Wizard Preview pages - framerate comparisons, screenshots and more .
- For screenshots at 1024x768 mode (SLI) on a PC, see Mike's Obsidian X24 Review page.
- Unreal Timedemo Results
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