First post, by red_avatar
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OK, this is an area that is quite unknown to me. I know that non-integrated cards heavily depend on the connection type - ISA, PCI, VLB, ... - but I was unaware that graphics cards of the same connection type could also have major performance differences.
To give you an idea, I have 2 HP Vectra VE 5/75 machines - one is a series 1, the other a series 2. Both have integrated Cirrus Logic chips. - 5430 for series 1, 5436 for series 2. The performance difference between these two is quite amazing however - benchmarks see a 30% difference between the two in games like Magic Carpet, Quake, etc. I know that part of it is the system's architecture but they're both socket 7 systems, both integrated cards use PCI, both use similar EDO memory, both have a Pentium 75 with identical cache.
So my question is: would DOS benefit from more modern cards like the Voodoo Banshee? I always thought games had to be programmed a certain way to take advantages but the performance difference above kind of threw me.
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