Which graphics card to buy?

[Dimitris Agrafiotis]

David , Sebastien

Thanks for your advice. I think I'll go for the GLORIA II (it will save
us some money as well).You can read an extensive review of the card at 
the following address: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=111
Unfortunately they are not comparing it with the GVX210 only with the 
GVX1 (among others). I will submit my benchmark results as soon as I 
install everything. 

Thanks again.
Regards 
Dimitris


On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:05:38 +0200 Sebastien Barre 
<barre at sic.sp2mi.univ-poitiers.fr> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> >Currently we have an Erazor X (nVidia GeForce)
> 
> SDR, DDR ?
> 
> >and an obsolete/retired
> >GLoria XXL (3DLabs GMX2000).
> 
> I've got a PC SGI Visual 320 at work, and a GMX2000 at home. Do you find 
> the GMX obsolete ? It's still alright, but definitely too expensive.
> 
> >The ErazorX gives amazing performance and
> >we haven't found any conformance or stability problems with it.
> 
> Is the GeForce so good ? That would be a good news, I knew it was a killer 
> game-card, but not as good as high-end OpenGL graphics card. There is a 
> geometry engine in the GeForce, but I thought the one (or two MX ?) on the 
> GMX was really good. Have a look at :
> 
> http://www-sop.inria.fr/caiman/personnel/Robert.Riviere/vtk/sphere-bench/res 
> ults.php3?famille=W&flats=1&flat=1&strip=1&transp=1&wire=1&txt=1&txtp=1
> 
> The GMX seems much better at triangle strips. And it has more RAM (96).
> 
> >  The
> >GLoria XXL, though it was a 'professional' card, often crashed when
> >we used it for texture-mapped volume rendering.
> 
> What kind of crashes ? Blue screen ? Computer hanging ?
> 
> >Though professional
> >cards are supposed to have higher-quality drivers, the drivers for
> >consumer-level cards get much greater testing for stability because
> >they are aimed for such a huge market.
> 
> True, but as they are targeted to games, they often implement only a subset 
> of OpenGL. A really good ICD is hard to find.
> 
> >My advice is to go for the the GLoria II unless you need dual-head
> >or stereo.
> 
> My advice too, unless you are going to manipulate hundreds of thousands 
> polygons (> 100 K).
> 
> Anyway Dimitri, as soon as you get your card, feel free to send us your 
> benchmark results :
> http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/vtk/sphere-bench.html
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> --
> Sebastien BARRE
> IRCOM-SIC, UMR-CNRS 6615 - Université de Poitiers
> Bât. SP2MI, Bvd 3 - Téléport 2, BP 179 F-86960 Futuroscope Cedex
> Tel. : +33 (0)5 49 49 65 95 / 65 83, Fax : +33 (0)5 49 49 65 70
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Dimitris Agrafiotis
University of Bristol
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Merchant Venturers Building 
Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB, UK
Phone:  (+ 44 117) 9545194
E-mail: d.agrafiotis at bristol.ac.uk

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