Reply 20 of 182, by feipoa
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There's a recent video comparing the Matrox G400 to the S3 Savage4. And for nearly all tests, the G400 beat the Savage4 by a factor of 4. Not sure what system was used though, sure something faster than a PPRO. Re: S3 Savage 2000
Rawit: Is the chili logo from your username related to the Cyrix 5x86-133 chili embedded into the chips dye? Looks just like it from what I recall. You were able to find a DVI add-on for the Matrox G200 then? There was a few on eBay years ago, but I passed, as I thought $55 was way too much for this little feature card.
I ran the Savage 4 Pro+ some today. Between OpenGL, D3D, and Metal at 1024x768, the S3 Metal api looked the best and was the fastest rendering mechanism for Classic Unreal. With detail textures enabled for both Metal and D3D using the built-in timedemo, Metal scored 20.1 fps, D3D scored 17.38, and Open GL 18.74.
I might need to run a few games on a few of the options to consider a preference. I think clocking the G450 to 400 MAX speeds might be a good way to go. I'm curious how the TNT, TNT2 Vanta, Oxygen VX1, and Rage 128 Pro compare to the G450 and S3 Savage 4 Pro. I'm feeling the FX5500, and Radeon 9000 series are too new for such a build. I'm guessing that there weren't any Radeon suggestions because they are also too new? I should probably thrown in the GF2 just to offer some scale. Not sure if I have the energy to run all these benchmarks though. Might be easlier to tally your votes next to the cards in the OP, which I've since done.
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