PlanetHardware heeft een zeer heftige round-up gemaakt tussen 5 videokaarten, te weten: de Diamond Monster 3D, STB Velocity 128, Diamond Stealth II S220, Matrox Millennium G200 en de Quantum3D SB100-4440. Uit deze round-up kunnen we een drie dingen concluderen: de Matrox G200 is snel (relatief dan...), je mag blij zijn als je een nieuwe videokaart bezit en 3dfx heeft al een lange geschiedenis met lange kaarten, zie de foto hieronder van een dual voodoo1 kaartje :
One day in a typical office discussion around the proverbial water cooler (ICQ), some PlanetHardware staffers wondered how their "first" 3D cards would handle the current games we utilize to benchmark the latest video card thoroughbreds that come down the pike. Would an original 3dfx Voodoo1 4MB card be able to run Quake3: Arena at all, let alone at a rapid frame rate? Or what about NVIDIA's first big home run, the NV3 which is better known as the Riva 128, how would it handle the crushing explosions and texture map depth of Rage's Expendable?
Such was the origin for the article you see before you today, curiosity over how far the relatively young Video Accelerator market has come in the past few years combined with the nostalgic pangs of a staff that remembers when 3D cards were an event, not a mandatory ingredient in a killer PC.
We managed to assemble five cards that we felt best represented the majority of gamer's first experiences with 3D acceleration, including the Diamond Monster 3D (3dfx Voodoo1 4MB), the STB Velocity 128 (NVIDIA NV3 - Riva 128 4MB), the Diamond Stealth II S220 (Rendition V2200 4MB), the Matrox Millennium G200 (G200 8MB), and an extremely expensive and rare Quantum3D SB100-4440 card (3dfx Voodoo1 SLI 12MB).