From: albert e martinez eet stnt (aem2564@megahertz.njit.edu)
Date: Mon 01 Feb 1999 - 21:35:33 IST
I need help in choosing a video card for a lintel box I'll be building this week. I've been to the XFree86 site and downloaded tons of info but that still isn't enough to chose a card. I was thinking of getting a card based on ATI Rage Pro, RIVA TNT, or Permedia 2. I'm not sure how these chips, or cards containing these chips, compare to each other. I'm guessing that the Rage Pro is the slowest of the three. I see that the ATI and Permedia cards have their own servers where as the TNT uses the SVGA server. I've read that the TNT has little support. It runs, but, the acceleration is poor. What's more, I've read that MESA will support Permedia 2 someday "soon". Also, it's supported by commercial OpenGLs. So, I'm leaning towards the Permidia 2 cards. But, the TNT has twice the memory. But, I've seen benchmarks that show the ELSA Synergy to very very fast. But, those were windoze bench marks. The problem is that I haven't found any Linux video card performance tests and I don't have the experience to chose a video card, but I'd like to have good 3D. If any body has any ideas or you've actually used some of these cards, or others, please help. TIA, AL P.S. I didn't mention Matrox becuase they fair poorly in windoze bench marks and the video quality isn't that good, so I've read. On the other hand, I've read that it's very well supported. So, if you have any info on Matrox cards let me have it.
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