Reply 1 of 10, by Putas
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I've never even seen one, so a lot?
Reply 2 of 10, by Stojke
Reply 3 of 10, by udam_u
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wrote:How rare are permedia 1 cards in AGP form?
Permedia 1 cards exist only in PCI form. ^^
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Reply 4 of 10, by Stojke
Reply 5 of 10, by udam_u
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Wow I have never seen AGP version of Permedia 1 card! I read a lot of materials regarding this chip and I haven't found any information about support of AGP - in fact it was advertised as graphics chip with "glueless PCI Interface" which means that not all chips of the time were designed to take full advantage of PCI bus. TVP4010 is permedia 1 produced by Texas Instruments. I saw this card in PCI version. Did you perform any test in Windows? How is it visible in device manager and display properties?
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Reply 6 of 10, by alexanrs
I wouldn't be surprised if it is "Voodoo3" levels of AGP compatibility... i.e. uses it as a glorified 66MHz PCI slot. Still very useful for not using up a PCI slot (which is useful for other stuff).
Reply 7 of 10, by Stojke
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Reply 8 of 10, by Putas
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And it even has 8 megs of memory, congrats.
Reply 9 of 10, by ZanQuance
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Now the question is, got drivers for it?
Reply 10 of 10, by Stojke
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Should it not use default Permedia drivers?
DATA: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mokag96s6jq5b4f/Per … a%20AGP.7z?dl=0 | Album: http://imgur.com/a/3y1yk
These are the default benchmark scores I got out of using Phill's ultimate benchmark pack and Final Reality 1.01 (MTRRLFBE Loaded on startup):
1. 3DBench2 - 662.0 FPS (532.2FPS)
2. Player Bench VGA MODE - 173FPS
3. Doom - 2134 Gameticks in 553 Worldticks
4. Quake - 969 Frames , 8.3 Seconds , 117.0FPS
5. Final reality:
Database Entry <Permedia AGP P3 600MHz>
Benchmark results:
Radial blur, 5N, 50.26, rips, 6.951, Rmark
Chaos zoomer, 5N, 89.31, rips, 4.340, Rmark
25 Pixel, 5N, 281.54, kpps, 8.998, Rmark
Robots, 5N, 14.69, rips, 3.806, Rmark
Fillrate, 5N, 7.97, MPps, 1.725, Rmark
City scene, 5N, 14.14, rips, 3.509, Rmark
Video card bus transfer, 5N, 41.82, MBps, 1.331, Rmark
Direct3D bus transfer, 5N, 17.05, MBps, 1.457, Rmark
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Visual appearance, 66.67, percent
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Overall 3D, 1.947, Rmark
Overall 2D, 5.646, Rmark
Overall bus rate, 1.369, Rmark
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OVERALL SCORE, 2.970, Rmark
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Winquake works nice, GLQuake is either broken (all white) or really crappy looking with Compress Textures enabled (and even more crappy looking with other options enabled).
I have also recorded an video of Final reality benchmark with my Nokia N95 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI2od0fWRxw
It is interesting that the Permedia 1 only displayed 66.67% , 2/3rds , of video information. Comparison to Diamond Monster 3D and Hercules Stingray 128/3D 8MB :
Re: Hercules Stingray 128/3D