386SX wrote on 2021-07-02, 09:25:
Thanks for the memory refresh about T&L games, I'm trying to remember the name of that Direct3D one I'm quite sure one of the early if not the first one using T&L but I need to search a bit on those period games, I remember the player jumping and running on some sort of yellow/green planet and it was a good well known game I tried the demo back then.
Are you thinking of Slave Zero? I don't think that was a DirectX 7 game, but I might be wrong.
I think the first game that I saw supporting DirectX 7.0 features was MDK2. I remember that it ran and looked like crap on my K6-2 500 + Ati Rage II 😀
EDIT: never mind, it was Evolva (never played it) 😀
386SX wrote on 2021-07-02, 09:25:
I remember the jump from the K6-2 550 to a Duron 750 on a different chipset (maybe Via can't remember) and it was like night/day in Win usage but also in the same games I was used to play. At the same time I already had switched to a Point of View Geforce2 MX the original and better one imho, and it was amazing.. I didn't overclock the cpu but the gpu could reach 215Mhz easily while the vram couldn't be clocked much higher but the results were great.
I don't know if there're FPU benchmark at the same clocks of both the K6-2/3 FPU and the Athlon/Duron FPU?
I did the jump from a K6-2 500 to a Thunderbird 1333 MHz. That's the single most EXTREME jump in performance that I've ever seen and probably will ever see in my entire life with an upgrade. Initially I was on a TNT2 M64 (after finally getting rid of my ATI Rage II). Later on I also switched to GeForce 2 MX 400 128 bit / 64 MB (a very solid card), and eventually to a GeForce 3 Ti200 (another massive jump in performance, particularly for high resolutions).
As for the FPU performance, never tested it myself, but I would expect the Athlon to have at least double the FPU performance of a K6-2. These tests on Anandtech are probably good indicators of rough FPU performance.
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