3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 + Matrox G400 MAX + NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Ultra - popular 1999 graphics chips!
388The G400, TNT2 and Voodoo 3 were the most popular graphics chips for PC Gamers back in 1999! The fastest variants were used of each manufacturer for this comparison video!
TNT2 and G400 have better feature packages, such as AGP texturing and 32 bit colour rendering in 3D, but the 3dfx Voodoo 3 has the best games compability and can use the low level 3dfx Glide api, that many games have been used at this time! The G400 sets even further on the Enviromental Bump Mapping (EMBM)!
If you want to know more about Enviromental Bump Mapping, PhilsComputerLab has made a informative video about this feature of the Matrox G400: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5TcQAIP_Oc
With the testsystem, a Pentium III Tualatin from 2001, the CPU can't bottleneck this cards! You see the max. performance of this cards, that you can't see back in 1999, because there was no CPU available above 600MHz! The fastest at this time was the AMD Athlon 600 Slot A Argon/Pentium III Katmai with 600MHz, where the chips were released! In the late of Oct.-Dec. 1999, the Pentium III Coppermine comes out with max. 800MHz and AMD Athlon K7 Pluto/Orion until 750Mhz!
Introduction: 0:00
Content and Order: 0:39
3DMark 2000 (all in 1024x768x16, Direct3D): 0:55
Descent 3 (all in 1024x768x16, Direct3D, Glide): 2:10
Drakan (all in 1024x768x16, Direct3D): 3:10
Heavy Metal F.A.A.K.² (all in 1024x768x16, OpenGL): 6:44
MDK 2 (all in 1024x768x16, OpenGL): 8:19
Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing (all 1024x768x16, Direct3D): 9:01
Motocross Madness 2 (all in 1024x768x16, Direct3D): 11:43
Quake 3 (all in 1024x768x16, OpenGL): 12:16
Unreal (all in 1280x1024x16, Direct3D, Glide): 13:01
Incoming Subversion (1280x1024x32 Bit G400+TNT2 / 22 Bit with the Voodoo 3, Direct3D): 14:09
Conclusion: 18:22
System:
Intel Pentium III-S Tualatin 1400 MHz
Asus TUSL2-C Rev. 1.04
1x 512MB Micron SD-RAM PC133
Compaq Voodoo 3 3500 16MB SDRAM AGP
Matrox G400 MAX DualHead 32MB SGRAM AGP
MSI MS-8806 TNT2 Pro@Ultra 32MB SDRAM AGP
Creative Soundblaster Audigy Player PCI
Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8 40GB IDE
Plextor PlexWriter PX-W52/24/52A
Delta Electronics 350W
Windows 98 SE with SP 2.1e
Recorded with Panasonic HC-V180 and StarTech USB32DVCAPRO USB 3.0 Capture Device.
I recommend to watch this video on a PC Monitor or TV, because of the triple screen viewing. To small on a smartphone display and you can not see everything in full glory!