marxveix wrote on 2025-04-23, 06:36:

noshutdown wrote on 2025-04-22, 08:01:

i am not that interested in rage pro due to mediocre performance(about 2/3 of the riva128), and sometimes texture filtering doesn't work(blocky surfaces).

RagePro 8MB/XL 8MB AGP medicore performance it may have, 3DMark99Max (800x600x16) up to 2300 points is enough with faster CPUs for me.

Keep in mind that RagePro/XL has half the memory bandwidth vs Riva128.

Well that and Rage Pro released in March where Riva 128 launched at the end of August. That doesn't seem like much now, but back then that was basically half a generation. If Riva 128 didn't significantly outperform the older competition it would have been DoA. Especially so after NV1, no one really had any reason to trust NV at that point.

DrAnthony wrote on 2025-04-23, 15:57:

Well that and Rage Pro released in March where Riva 128 launched at the end of August. That doesn't seem like much now, but back then that was basically half a generation. If Riva 128 didn't significantly outperform the older competition it would have been DoA. Especially so after NV1, no one really had any reason to trust NV at that point.

maybe so, but i suggest that all 3d cards with a single pixel/texture unit to be the first generation, while voodoo2 is the first card of second generation.
therefore first generation 3d cards include: rendition1000/2200, permedia1/2, sis6326, rage pro, i740, trident9880, savage3, riva128 and g200.
cards without opengl icd are considered failed 3d cards.

From the lowest Direct3D cards is missing ATi 3D Rage (Mach64GT aka Rage1)
https://youtu.be/wXKMxNg-_0Y

noshutdown wrote on 2025-04-24, 01:20:

maybe so, but i suggest that all 3d cards with a single pixel/texture unit to be the first generation, while voodoo2 is the first card of second generation.
therefore first generation 3d cards include: rendition1000/2200, permedia1/2, sis6326, rage pro, i740, trident9880, savage3, riva128 and g200.
cards without opengl icd are considered failed 3d cards.

That would make SiS 300 and 305 also first generation, which is quite wild.