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SMP-Oriented Video Card Round-up

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the doubling-up-the-fun dept.

Jason Mitchell writes "I just noticed that 2CPU.com has posted a rather large video card round-up. They ran game and application benchmarks on a dual Athlon MP and Xeon workstation and also did some unique qualitative testing pertaining to s-video output quality. It's a good read."

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  1. Re: SMP-Oriented Video Card Round-up by Dunark · · Score: 4, Informative

    Too bad they didn't mention one of the bummers about the Matrox G550: It only supports video playback to the S-Video output when you set your whole desktop to 1024 x 768 16-bit color. This is a major disappointment if you're used to running your display at 1600 x 1200 24-bit.

  2. Re:MX? by htmlboy · · Score: 4, Informative
    It's reasonably fast at what it does, so it will run Doom 3 at a decent framerate.

    in a .plan update from a few months ago, john carmack said this:

    Do not buy a GeForce4-MX for Doom.

    Nvidia has really made a mess of the naming conventions here. I always thought it was bad enough that GF2 was just a speed bumped GF1, while GF3 had significant architectural improvements over GF2. I expected GF4 to be the speed bumped GF3, but calling the NV17 GF4-MX really sucks.


    so a gf4mx will run doom, but it won't be pretty.