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whats the fastest 2d-only video card?

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First post, by noshutdown

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"2d-only video card" means cards without any 3d features, especially line drawing with 3d geometry transformation, and this rules out most matrox cards.
here are some possible candidates:
tseng et6100
s3 968 and trio64v2(trio64v2 seems a bit faster but with 4mb edo max, and most cards are 2mb only, 968 supports 8mb vram max and may be faster at higher resolutions)
cirrus5480
ati mach64gx
trident9685
ark2000
chips69030
oak64111
wd9710

Reply 1 of 4, by The Serpent Rider

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That really depends on how and what you measure. DOS/other "dumb" ways of output and GUI acceleration are separate things.
Also you have to take into account that not every card is clocked at the same speed, which creates discrepancies like humble vanilla S3 Trio64 beating newer and more powerful (on paper) cards that clocked rather anemically.

Last edited by The Serpent Rider on 2025-06-23, 12:47. Edited 2 times in total.

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Reply 2 of 4, by Grzyb

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My guess would be ET6100, followed by ET6000 - both are 128-bit.
All the others are 64-bit, aren't they?

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Reply 3 of 4, by The Serpent Rider

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Well no. Tseng ET6000/ET6100 has 32-bit bus - https://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/tseng13.html

And once again, one of my Trio 64 is poking fun at so called 128-bit Tseng card in most of my tests, simply by virtue of being factory overclocked.

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