Reply 60 of 67, by 386SX
Not sure about the 8900D but the 9000i get destroyed in real world usage by the GD5429 1MB DRAM ISA I get as fastest ISA card I've bought (quite expensive too..) at least with a "time correct" Am386DX-40 high end config. Doom game is clearly smoother like no other ISA cards I have performed. Maybe only the ATi ISA card was similar (but slower) with also much better video output quality as expected from ATi.
The only problem I had with that card beside not the best video output signal, was that the specific GD5429 Win 3.x drivers using the great GUI acceleration crashed during Win 3.x benchmarks and I had to use the GD5428 ones which I think to remember were not the same at all and performed slower. I always thought that the drivers around were the ones for the VLB cards and not the ISA; while someone may say they should be the same I still don't think so.