User: VR Guy

Linux/Win98 comparisons, and a few complaints

On: Review Of The Matrox 32MB Millenium G400

For those of you who wanted a Windows/Linux comparison of this graphics card, our lab has been doing som preliminary work on benchmarking this card, and here are some of the results we get.

First off, the card is a matrox G400 Max, with 32 megs. The system is a Dell Precision 220 with 2 533 Mhz PIIIs, and 128 megs of memory. We didn't do any overclocking, so these are just raw numbers. Everything was done at 32 bpp, and at 1024x768, 76hz.

For Windows 98, using Q3A, we get the following:

demo001: 1346 frames, 45.2 seconds: 29.8 fps
demo002: 1399 frames, 48.1 seconds: 29.1 fps

For Linux 2.3.47, XFree86 3.3.6, and Utah-glx 0.9, we get:

demo001: 1346 frames, 74.4 seconds: 18.1 fps
demo002: 1399 frames, 76.2 seconds: 18.4 fps

Note that this does not use the DRI of Xfree86 4.0, and there are some issues with AGP, since this system uses the i820 chipset. Overall, not bad performance.

As a side note, I was seeing similar performace with the G400 test as I was with my SGI Octanse SI with texture memory, not too shabby...