Re: [Dri-devel] comparison of 3dfx windows/linux drivers

[Josh F. <jo...@fa...>]

Well, there's reviews of 2 other gfx cards on there too...and there have
been a couple of benchmarks on linuxgames of voodoo3 vs. other
cards.  I think though that even though 75% of Windows performance is
quite respectable, as shown by the other cards reviewed, it should be able
to get up into 90+% of Windows speed with optimizations, if not surpass
it.  Hopefully we'll see that with the Voodoo4/5.

Daryll, any comments on this?  I know you're going for features first, and
then optimizations, but what timeframe are the optimizations going to come
in?  Thanks.

--Josh

On Mon, 22 May 2000, Jeff Dubrule wrote:

> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 06:41:27PM -0400, Josh Faust wrote:
> > Hey, just thought I'd point out
> > http://www.linuxgames.com/articles/comparison/page4.shtml, a comparison of
> > the performance of the Voodoo 3 in Linux and Windows...it's not very
> > positive towards the opensource drivers tho, so weakhearted beware!
> 
> Hmm...  'twould seem to me that 75% of Windows performance is a pretty
> respectable figure, since the system was designed for Windows in the
> first place...  
> 
> Anyhow, I would think that it'd be much more useful to see the Voodoo3
> up against other cards...  Developers know where they need
> improvement, generally, but the average user just wants to know what
> card to buy.
> 
> -igor
> 
> 
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