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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:02:00 EST
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- From: SHADOW@JCSVAX1.BITNET
- Subject: Re: Speedstar24X Winmarks -- minor corrections
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- Charles Shopsis <shopsis@PANTHER.ADELPHI.EDU> said:
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- >I've been told that the 3.1 gives *much* lower numbers than 2.5. I recall
- >something like 50%, but am not sure. There *is* a big difference.
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- also Jim Tunnicliffe <tunny@INFERENCE.COM> said:
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- >on the various tests that make up the Winmark score. For example, if card
- >A was really fast at line drawing but really slow at bitblt's, and card B
- >was just the opposite, their scores between 2.5 and 3.1 would change in
- >different ways -- one could conceivably even score higher on 3.1 (though
- >I haven't seen that happen -- maybe more than just the weighting formula
- >changed).
-
- >Enough speculation, though, how about a solid data point -- my card (a G-HOST
- >S3 local bus card) scores about 10% lower on 3.1, with a score of 9.1M as
- >opposed to 10.1M on 2.5. What have the rest of you found?
-
-
- Strange enough my card (ET4000-based) scored lower on version 2.5 -- only
- 2.7M -- while in 3.1 it jumped to 3.6M...
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- Anybody else had this jump?
-
- Nick.
-