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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.windows.x,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: WANTED: highest graphics performance under 386BSD X11R5, DOS, Windows
- Message-ID: <m29mcmr.hasty@netcom.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 19:34:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.074001.547@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <9208167598@genesis.nred.ma.us>
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- In article <9208167598@genesis.nred.ma.us> abh@genesis.nred.ma.us (Andrew Hudson) writes:
- >The fastest VGA cards fall into three categories:
- >34020 TIGA based (very expensive, $500+, awkward drviers)
- >S3 based (fast line drawing, $200+)
-
- The S3 has built-in graphics like bitblt, fill-polygon, fill-rectangle.
- The graphics operators internally can transfer data at 27.5 MB/sec.
- The S3 is capable of direct memory access to the CPU. Also, the new
- upcoming 928 will be about 2 to 3 times faster than the 911 used
- in the Diamond Stealth svga card plus full 32 bit wide data access. S3
- also tests their chips with the local bus.
-
- >WINGINE based (just released by Chips and Technologies, VERY fast)
- >
- >The Wingine VGA cards are not yet in wide distribution but
- >I have heard that they do not have the silly segmented memory
- >addressing bottle-neck of regular VGA cards. This will be a BIG plus.
-
- The S3 chipsets and the TSENG, et4000 are capable of full CPU memory access.
- >
- >Andrew says check 'em out.
- >
- >- Andrew
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- Amancio Hasty
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