Has anyone ever heard of these? From what little information I could find these were a DX8 AGP 8X card from around 1999-2000. Were they actually competitive with other 3d cards from that time? Does anyone know of any magazines benchmarking them in games?
They are garbage, basically. Trident never made a 3D chip that was competitive.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,746233,00.asp
This review has permanently attached itself to my brain because of Dave's memorable Trident thrashing. 😀
http://www.anandtech.com/show/960
http://www.anandtech.com/show/968/6
To be fair it looks like it crushes FX5200 😀
A piece of wet cardboard would probably crush an FX5200, if you could find a way to interface it with an AGP slot.
It looks like the XP4 T3 version would probably be a match for the Radeon 9000, so as far as price/performance, I wouldn't say it fared too badly for the time. Though I also understand that the image quality sucked (like every other Trident card ever), so that would be another mark against it.
I think a FX 5200 would be much more desirable than any Trident product. NVIDIA's drivers are going to be much more compatible with games. I imagine that a 5200 will run games as well as any other FX chip from a compatibility standpoint. The series is pretty good for DX8 and older games. I can't imagine the XP4 being trouble-free by any measure.
