I was building a retro PC and I had the time to run basic benchmarks on every video card I have. I would like to put this info out there in case somebody finds one of those cards in the attic and decides to use them in a retro build.

The culprits are:

• Radeon 9600 XT (Note: Overdrive feature is enabled)
• All-in-Wonder 9600
• Radeon 9550 SE
• Radeon 9200 LE
• NVS 280 PCI
• Hercules 4000TX (Note: stock clocks, as overclock even by 1 Mhz will make the card unstable even in the desktop)
• G450
• TNT2 M64

The test bench:
Intel Pentium 4 2.8Ghz 400FSB
Gigabyte GA-8IDML Rev2.0
512MB SDRAM 133Mhz
Windows 98SE

The results were as follows:

Overall, for a 2001 build you can probably use even NVS 280 (it costs so little, the proprietary VGA adapter it requires costs more than the card).