Voodoo² Accelerator Review September 1998

Incoming Benchmarks

The Obsidian 2 AGP benefits from the higher clock of the AGP bus and is the fastest single Voodoo² card for Incoming at 800x600 resolution.

Again the Quantum 3D card is clearly slower than the others, but only at 640x480.

It's surprising that two 8 MB Diamond Monster II cards are still slightly faster than a pair of 12 MB Creative cards. Once again the Obsidian 2 SLI card shows performance deficits; in this benchmark even at 800x600.

1024x768 is what really will count in the Future. The Obsidian 2 X-24 card rates much better now. I think it is amazing to see the 8 MB Diamond SLI cards being faster than other 12 MB solutions. This shows that there are still only few performance advantages with 12 MB cards.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.