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- Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar 24X vs. Stealth VRAM
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.162718.1@vms.ucc.okstate.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 22:27:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.163529.16478@zeos.com>, jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec20.212014.1@vms.ucc.okstate.edu> v923137@vms.ucc.okstate.edu writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec18.023210.9407@csar.encore.com>, mthompso@csar.encore.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
- >>> mrbill@leland.Stanford.EDU (William Bowen) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>Which is the faster card, the Stealth VRAM or the Speedstar 24X? Does
- >>>>anyone have benchmarks for these cards, preferably run on the same machine?
- >>>
- >>>>Thanks for any info.
- >>>
- >>>>Bill
- >>>
- >>>>mrbill@leland.stanford.edu
- >>>
- >>> I just installed a SpeedStar 24X in my 486DX/50 MHz 256kb cache 8MB ram
- >>> system. WinBench reports 12,691,779 WinMarks in 800x600x256 mode. Sorry, I
- >>> don't have any numbers on the Stealth. Maybe someone else with a similiar
- >>> system can post them.
- >>
- >>The Diamond Stealth VRAM 1MB accelerator card runs about 8.4 Million WinMarks.
- >>I had a Stealth, and just bought a 24X. The 24X is faster. Period.
- > ^^^^^^
- > Not "Period". The 24X is definitely faster in standard DOS text and VGA
- > applications but the Windows
- > performance of the two cards is very similar. One advantage the Stealth has is
-
- ?
- Ok, so if the 24X is ABSOLUTELY faster in *most* DOS applications, and lets say
- the they are the same in Windows, which is the faster card? The 24X I believe.
-
- > that it has line draw fuctions in hardware, the 24X does not. This means, given
- > the correct drivers, that even some DOS based apps (i.e. CAD) may have better
- > performance with the Stealth.
-
- Perhaps, but the Stealth (in my opinion) is such a dog in DOS apps that I run
- that the 24X was a WELCOME addition to my computer.
-
- > I personally would pick the 24X, but the issue is not cut and dry.
-
- No, it's not cut-and-dry. However, for users that do equal amounts of
- DOS/Windows apps, or perhaps more DOS than Windows, then the 24X is the logical
- choice (which you have stated), and I think that it cut and dry.
-
- -Jason Worley
-