Reply 20 of 54, by Tetrium
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UltimateElectronic wrote on 2022-03-17, 01:05:Doornkaat wrote on 2022-03-14, 05:29:The regular TNT2 is quite a bit faster than the TNT2 M64, mostly because it has more than double the VRAM bandwidth. As you said […]
The regular TNT2 is quite a bit faster than the TNT2 M64, mostly because it has more than double the VRAM bandwidth.
As you said the TNT2 M64 is a budget card from 99 while the Pentium III 866 is one of the fastest Coppermine Pentium IIIs and released in 2000. There's certainly a bit of a mismatch going on. If you bought your computer for gaming you would probably not have combined those two. If you wanted a computer mostly for 2D applications it would have made sense though.
Still a TNT2 M64 is a good enough entry level Win9x gaming card and if you already have it you can't go wrong with it. If you feel you need more performance you can upgrade any time.
Edit: And yes, the TNT2 was part of Nvidia's high end segment when it launched.Alright fair enough. Looks as though it's probably an imbalance for gaming from everyone here is saying.
As I don't have a GF2 or GF3, my plan is to go with one of the MX440s I have that aren't in anything... I'd imagine that it'd create more of a balanced system for gaming.
So I don't know how much you're familiar with retro hardware (I can imagine it can be really daunting for anyone who's basically learning from scratch as of 2022), but if you want to know how good one graphics card was compared to some other graphics cards, I've always liked checking this page here https://www.pc-erfahrung.de/grafikkarte/vga-g … krangliste.html
It doesn't give graphics cards a score but it lists cards near cards that are about as good, so you can check how (for instance) GF MX420 compares to TNT2 Ultra or how Radeon9200SE compares to GF3, just to pull some random cards out of this air 😜
It's not definitive because one does not simply jumble all graphics cards into a single list like that and call it definitive, but I think it's a great starting point.