Re: Video card questions...
Phillip Dillinger (Phillip.Dillinger@sealabs.com)
Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:51:59 -0800
> On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Rob Glover wrote:
>
> > Second: PCI is much faster than VLB.
> >
> Yeah, right... or at least is supposed to be...
> Why does some cheap cl5428 (dram,vlb) outperform diamond stealth 64 video
> 3000 (vram,pci) (s3 968... quite fast on pentiums) when used on 486dx2 66? ;)
> (>30% speed diff...)
> And... you can usually "overclock" vlb to 50MHz... pci only to 33MHz...
> so you could get >2x performance or something ;)
>
Well, it may not be much faster, but IMHO it is much better. There are many
reasons, but the main one is that the same hardware can (theoretically) work
on any CPU that has PCI support. And now, there are local->PCI bus bridges
for all sorts of CPUs.