First post, by maximus
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About a year ago, I decided to start collecting benchmark results for various video cards using the following mid-spec Windows 98 machine:
Dell Dimension 4100
Intel 815E chipset
Pentium III 1000
256 MB PC-133 RAM
20 GB HDD
Many hours of benchmarking later, I'm finally ready to share the results. I'm posting the most interesting graphs below, but this represents only a small fraction of the data I collected. I also have results for 640x480 and 800x600, as well as 16-bit color. I've published the full results on my website, along with analysis and details of the hardware, software, and methodology used:
Windows 98 VGA Charts - PCGames9505
A note on the cards:
I thought it would be interesting to test newer, more advanced, low-end video cards against older, less advanced, high-end ones, so I chose cards with this goal in mind. More generally, I also chose cards with low-ish power requirements and good Windows 98 driver support. I don't know if the test system's power supply could handle a GeForce Ti 4600, GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, GeForce 6800 Ultra, or Radeon 9800 Pro, so I left these cards out. (They would all be severely bottlenecked by the Pentium III anyway.) I also got into collecting too late to score many 3dfx cards for good prices, which is why the Voodoo2 and Voodoo5 5500 are not on the charts, and probably never will be.