might be useful to clarify which cards are PCI and which are AGP, but certainly it doesn't look like post-GF4 gaming performance on k6 was a top priority, to say the very least. ati is actually doing better here despite ceasing to release new 3.3V AGP/PCI cards earlier than nvidia.

what may be a great indicator for driver overhead are the UT99 results though. interesting to see D3D and glide perform very close on the voodoo3, despite the relatively slow CPU, i had also previously noticed this in my testing. epic must have invested a lot of effort over time to mask the D3D driver overhead.

auron wrote on 2023-07-30, 02:59:

might be useful to clarify which cards are PCI and which are AGP

All video cards use the AGP bus.

auron wrote on 2023-07-30, 02:59:

what may be a great indicator for driver overhead are the UT99 results though. interesting to see D3D and glide perform very close on the voodoo3, despite the relatively slow CPU, i had also previously noticed this in my testing. epic must have invested a lot of effort over time to mask the D3D driver overhead.

The good performance of Voodoo graphics cards in Unreal (api Direct3D) is most likely due to the excellent support for 8-bit paletted texture.

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