I know the OAK OTI-077 & 087 cards are generally faster than the run of the mill Trident's. The HMC HM86304 seems to have middle of the road performance too.

Did anyone ever do an ISA benchmark thread? I am guessing that interest is rather niche for vogons vs something like vcfed.

Those are really the middle of the pack:
trident 9000
paradise pvga1
oti 067, 077

The slowest ones are:
oti 037
realtek3105
tseng et3000
Chips & Technologies 451
HMC HM86314

See these benchmarks (isa cards are all at the botton 😊 ):

http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/benchmarks

dieymir wrote:

Those are really the middle of the pack: trident 9000 paradise pvga1 oti 067, 077 […]
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Those are really the middle of the pack:
trident 9000
paradise pvga1
oti 067, 077

The slowest ones are:
oti 037
realtek3105
tseng et3000
Chips & Technologies 451
HMC HM86314

See these benchmarks (isa cards are all at the botton 😊 ):

http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/benchmarks

i have read the benchmarks also(probably the one with most isa cards on the net), but feel that the trident9000 and pvga1 should stay in the slowest group.
if you look at the diag and quake320 results(other tests have fewer isa cards), you can see that the fastest isa card scores 3.1mb and 36fps, while a bunch of slow cards scoring 1~1.1mb and 10~15fps, although noticably better than the buttom of 0.7~0.9mb and 8~10fps, they are still too far away from the fast group to be considered middle ground.

There are some ISA benchmarks over at vgamuseum. Quite a few if I remember correctly.
http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/benchmarks

Oops. Missed dieymir's post above. 😊

ISA benchmarks on a Athlon XP 2200+? Really?

CkRtech wrote:

ISA benchmarks on a Athlon XP 2200+? Really?

true, he used a kt133a motherboard, which i think is almost the fastest platform with native isa slots, save for the third party isa bridge chips which are usually for special purpose, rare and expensive.

Elianda's ISA VGA Roundup: http://retronn.de/ftp/docs/eliandas_isa_vga_roundup.pdf
(Thats actually me)

Also vidspeed results:

Scaling ISA vs Localbus (PCI in this case):

I forgot, all the tested cards can be found with photos in the gallery http://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hwgal_empty.html

I'm really curious what makes the Machspeed faster. Is it using less wait states, or did they just overclock the memory and core?

noshutdown wrote:

CkRtech wrote:

ISA benchmarks on a Athlon XP 2200+? Really?

true, he used a kt133a motherboard, which i think is almost the fastest platform with native isa slots, save for the third party isa bridge chips which are usually for special purpose, rare and expensive.

Well, I was just indicating a desire for benchmarks covering the gamut of proper systems - something like 286/386/486.