Conclusion
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| 3D Chip | Advantages | Disadvantages |
|---|---|---|
| 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee | Glide supportNo compatibility issuesGood 3D performance, better than Voodoo2 in games that don't use multi-texturingOnly current 2D/3D solution with K6-2 Quake 2 support | Missing 2nd TMU compared to Voodoo2, thus worse Quake 2 performanceNo upgradeability to SLIAverage 3D image qualityNo AGP support, thus inability to run games that use very large textures |
| Matrox MGA-G200 | Good 2D engineBest 2D picture qualityExcellent 3D image qualitySatisfying 3D performance for owners of fast Pentium II systemsGood AGP 2x support, able to run games with large textures at good speed | Lowest 3D performance of the 3D chips in this testOnly D3D wrapper for quake 2 and Sin available, ICD not released yetNo K6-2 Quake 2 supportNo Glide support |
| NVIDIA RIVA TNT | Best 2D engineExcellent 3D performance with fast PII CPUs, either close or even faster than a single Voodoo2 boardExcellent 3D image qualityExcellent AGP performanceOpenGL ICD support | Serious performance drop with slower CPUs, probably no good solution for Socket7 systemsSerious chip clock issue, most boards will for now ship with slower chips than what I've tested. Only 80 to 90 MHz possible because of chip yield problemsNo convincing K6-2 support as yetNo Glide supportChip gets very hot |
| S3 Savage3D | High 3D performance in benchmarksFast 2D enginePerformance gain through texture compression | Cannot run Sin Demo properlyTransparency problem and missing crosshair in Quake 2Worst 3D image quality of the 3 tested chipsOdd lines flickering on screen whilst running Winstone 98Possible discrepancy between benchmark results and actual game playNo K6-2 Quake 2 supportNo Glide support |
