From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jul 31 7:42:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from dqc.org (dqc.org [12.7.119.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CC6114C4B for ; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 07:42:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@dqc.org) Received: by dqc.org (Postfix, from userid 1005) id 21655216B; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 07:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dqc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8303A for ; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 07:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 07:42:05 -0700 (PDT) From: just matt To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3d in 1280x1024 In-Reply-To: <199907311105.NAA04974@oranje.my.domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I know this review focuses on M$ performance, but it may help you decide: http://www.tomshardware.com/releases/99q2/990628/g400-02.html From this review it seems that the G400 might eventually be the better card (when there is more software support), but right now the TNT2 Ultra blows it out of the water. But that's for those M$ benchmarks, so I dunno... They do have some screenshots though that might be worth looking at. Matt On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Marc van Woerkom wrote: > > How the RIVA based cards compare to Matrox ones in the case of 2D > > quality? > > Hard to judge, as I don't use the same monitors at home (RIVA) and at > work (G200). > > A nice Sony Trinitron or a good LCD display (slow but no distortions) > is something I notice, differences among cards I usually spot only when the > cards are horrible. And the nvidia cards are good enough for me so far. > > > All usual references in the 'Net say that RIVA cards have below > > average 2D quality but I haven't tried myself. > > Was this not rather due to 3d issues (different MIP mapping or so)? > > > > graphics card in the near future, but can't decide which one, G400 with > > 32MB or some TNT2 Ultra. > > I think you need to see both at the same monitor to decide. > > There are arguments pro Matrox (e.g. their openess to release specs) > and Nvidia (I am impressed with them spitting out two new chips each year, > one big jump and and one improved, plus they have that SGI deal now) > > > Regards, > Marc > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message