pasquale@sgl (Pasquale Leone) (01/07/91)
I've seen many articles in the pc trade mags comparing the speed of various VGA cards and other articles comparing the speed of various 8514 cards and yet other articles comparing the speed of TMS34010 cards. As the owner of an ATI VGA1024 card who is thinking of buying a smart graphics card(8514, etc) I would like to know if it is worth the money. What I mean is how much faster is an 8514 going to be than my VGA. 10% ? Twice as fast ? 10 times as fast? Can anybody out there who has access to both a VGA equiped machine and one with a graphics coprocessor board please tell how much faster one is than the other. As a test consider having a full screen window (say notepad) in windows 3.0 that you then iconize. All of the backgorund windows and icons must be redrawn. How fast is it? Or consider just moving a window diagonally across the screen. If this has already been done in some article somewhere please let me know. pasquale@sgl.ists.ca