WickedPC heeft een review van de Trident Blade 3D videokaart geschreven. Iedereen die ooit in het bezit is geweest van een Trident videokaart, of er op andere wijze mee in aanraking is geweest, zal er hoogstwaarschijnlijk geen blije ervaringen aan over gehouden hebben. Trident staat synoniem voor bagger, maar dan op je scherm. Tegenwoordig kennen ze bij Trident ook al zoiets als 3D Acceleratie, dus wat moeten we ons hierbij voorstellen ('decceleratie?'):
This is where the marketing jokes come in. On the box, Trident boldly states with no fine print that the Blade 3D is capable of running in 3D Winbench with a score of 1080. The Voodoo2 scores are claimed to be 640. This is one of the oldest, stupidest, and lamest marketing gags in the book. When I benchmarked the Blade 3D, on a Pentium III 500 nonetheless, I got results of 340 in 3D Winbench 99. How is that possible that my score was only 30% of the Blade 3D boxes claims? Quite easily explained, Trident lied. They claimed to me that this is meant for OEM bundles, and the low end user. If this is the case, why are they marketing this board as the best video card on the market, when it is quite obvious that it is not? Shame on Trident for doing this lame deed to the gaming community. When we search for a fast video card, the box should tell the truth rather than something that is 300% inaccurate. After starting Quake II in 1024x768, I quickly stopped benchmarking the Blade 3D after it got a whopping 17fps. The Blade 3D is capable of 1024x768 as its maximum resolution with a color depth of 16bit.
