Digit-life looked back at graphics cards. Using an old platform (Intel pentium II 350), they compared 63 videocards. Amongst them are legendary ones like the first Voodoo, the first TNT, Matrox Millenium G450, but also more recent cards like one based on the NIVIDIA FX 5800 and ATI radeon 9800 core.
It’s a two way article; first you can enjoy differences in performance (was your new card really worth 400$?), second you can see how usefull it is equipping older pc’s with newer cards:
- “Modern games bring to nothing performance of the former 3D leaders up to 2000 especially in the highest-quality mode. The FPS of such accelerators is very low, and the CPU’s clock speed is not determining.
- The modern accelerators on the weak platforms have a very low speed. It was to be expected but some users do not understand that and install expensive graphics cards onto weak platforms. “
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