Re: offtopic: graphic card?

Andrew E. Mileski (aem@netcom.ca)
Sat, 27 Sep 1997 13:01:05 -0400 (EDT)

> I want to buy a fast graphics card, good
> supported by X, with 4MB RAM able to display
> 16bit colors with 1280*1024 pixel resolution
> and a good vertical refresh rate (right word?).
>
> Have someone made good experience with a
> certain card?

Matrox Millennium. The Millennium-I is being sold at blowout
prices too. The Millennium-II should score about the same.
AGP models aren't yet supported (it is being worked on though).

The following are the only bench scores I currently have available.
They are from an ALPHA experimental X server on a Millennium-I
(8MB, 220 MHz RAMDAC), and were obtained while a 33.6k PPP link was
actively dowloading news articles. All tests were at 1280x1024 @ 75Hz.

32bpp 24bpp 16bpp 8bpp
lineStone 714662 753421 1139119 1431977
fillStones 359490 370908 574217 806609
blitStones 52820 161679 213327 397514
arcStones 40043221 27128954 40968692 39669276
textStones 1567188 1719439 1641407 1828751
complexStones 167647 455098 509477 595424
xStones 204018 444779 589685 884983

Max resolution for the Millennium is about 1280x1024 at 32bpp,
1600x1200 at 24bpp, and 1920x1280 at 16bpp. Max theoretical
resolution is 2048x2048 (2048x1024 interlaced has been tested).

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Andrew E. Mileski
XFree86 Matrox Team Member