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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!zeos!jre
- From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
- Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar 24X vs. Stealth VRAM
- Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:35:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.163529.16478@zeos.com>
- References: <1992Dec14.184338.14584@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec18.023210.9407@csar.encore.com> <1992Dec20.212014.1@vms.ucc.okstate.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec20.212014.1@vms.ucc.okstate.edu> v923137@vms.ucc.okstate.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec18.023210.9407@csar.encore.com>, mthompso@csar.encore.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
- >> mrbill@leland.Stanford.EDU (William Bowen) writes:
- >>
- >>>Which is the faster card, the Stealth VRAM or the Speedstar 24X? Does
- >>>anyone have benchmarks for these cards, preferably run on the same machine?
- >>
- >>>Thanks for any info.
- >>
- >>>Bill
- >>
- >>>mrbill@leland.stanford.edu
- >>
- >> I just installed a SpeedStar 24X in my 486DX/50 MHz 256kb cache 8MB ram
- >> system. WinBench reports 12,691,779 WinMarks in 800x600x256 mode. Sorry, I
- >> don't have any numbers on the Stealth. Maybe someone else with a similiar
- >> system can post them.
- >
- >The Diamond Stealth VRAM 1MB accelerator card runs about 8.4 Million WinMarks.
- >I had a Stealth, and just bought a 24X. The 24X is faster. Period.
- ^^^^^^
- Not "Period". The 24X is definitely faster in standard DOS text and VGA
- applications but the Windows
- performance of the two cards is very similar. One advantage the Stealth has is
- that it has line draw fuctions in hardware, the 24X does not. This means, given
- the correct drivers, that even some DOS based apps (i.e. CAD) may have better
- performance with the Stealth.
- I personally would pick the 24X, but the issue is not cut and dry.
-
-
- ---JRE---
- >
- >>
- >> I really enjoy my new SpeedStar.
- >
- >Likewise.
- >
- >-Jason
-
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