Reply 40 of 52, by SiliconClassics
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As a follow-up, I bought several ViRGE cards in the past few months and recently had time to benchmark them.
They were all tested in a Pentium 233Mhz MMX system with 32MB of RAM. All cards have 4mb of memory. Results are as follows:
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (ViRGE, v1.04)
3dbench: 164.5
Quake I TimeDemo: 23.5fps
vspeed BVGA: 22.12
vspeed LFB: 19.17
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro Rev. A (ViRGE/DX, v1.01)
3dbench: 164.1
Quake I TimeDemo: 24.4fps
vspeed BVGA: 29.86
vspeed LFB: 63.77
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro Rev. G (ViRGE/DX, v1.14)
3dbench: 164.1
Quake I TimeDemo: 24.5fps
vspeed BVGA: 29.86
vspeed LFB: 63.77
STB Nitro 3D/GX (ViRGE/GX, v1.3)
3dbench: 164.6
Quake I TimeDemo: 24.6fps
vspeed BVGA: 30.60
vspeed LFB: 19.54
The only notable differences were among the vspeed scores, where the DX cards scored surprisingly high on the linear framebuffer memory speed tests. Not sure if that's a mistake, as the GX card scored about the same as the original ViRGE on the same tests.