So, how does the G450 compare to, say, the Voodoo3?

[Pace]

Topic says it all methinks

The reason I'm asking is I have a friend who loves me giving him a shot of DualHead - and now he wants some for himself! The G450 LE is what's in his range, but he doesn't want to spend £75 and get no FPS boost over his Voodoo 3 3000. I guessed that they'd be about the same - what about you guys?

I think this still counts as GHW, and not Benchmarks

Paul.

[rylan]

Um.. actaully the G450 will probably be slower than that V3 3000 card. The G450 is slower than a G400MAX, and even the G400 in some things.

[CHHAS]

I would think that the G450 would be a tad slower than the Voodoo.

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Damn, rylan you just beat me here
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[This message has been edited by CHHAS (edited 26 March 2001).]

[rylan]

heheheh

[Pace]

Well, you's were both pretty fast

But I was thinking that a standard G400 would be slightly faster than the 3000, so G450 about the same speed.

Oh well, I guess I'll not be promoting Matrox to this chap then

P.

[Nuno]

Isn´t the LE version a 64bit SDR version? If so, it´ll be MUCH slower than a V3 or even a G400...

[Pace]

Yes Nuno, it is

[JackYi]

The V3 3000 is actually a better product if you're not looking for DualHead capabilities. Dualhead and/or TV-out rocks on the G450, but that's about it. I can get 45fps with my(now in my bro's machine) V3 3000 running Quake3 Arena @ 1024x768x16, and strangely enough, 512x512 textures with the WickedGL driver. The 22-bit post filter also works, for it greatly reduces(still there) banding artifacts with the game and makes it hardly noticeable unless you stick your head on the moniter. For G450, even with that setting and the texture slider down one step, I got 26fps(with some fiddling around with the registry since I only got 21fps at the first stage) which is a very BAD score.

Well, that's really what you expect with the G450. Lower gaming performance then the G400 pure, but better DualHead capability with the BEST 2D then any other.

Sigh..
Guess I'd need to play less games nowadays!

Since the V3 is just a V2 with a 2D core built-in, guess I'd try to get a V2 SLI setup when I visit Canada the week after the next. No wait. Canadians, how often do you see V2(or Voodoo2) OEM/retail products on store shelves? For how much?

[cbman]

Sorry man.. unless you locate it in the papers classifieds its really hard to get any voodoo 2 card. It took almost 3 days for me to find one for a client at the computer store... (Found a few eights but he wanted a 12 megger).. LOL



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[yepitsme]

I don't know how this look like, i did
copy&paste from madonion 3dm2k
thats my g450 vs. voodoo3


My System Compared System
CPU Intel Pentium III 896MHz AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1000MHz
3D Accelerator Matrox Millennium G450 DualHead - English Voodoo3 AGP
Graphics Chipset Matrox G450 3dfx Voodoo3 2000/3000
Resolution 1024x768 16bit 1024x768 16bit
Memory 256 MB 128 MB
Z-Buffer Depth 16bit 16bit
Frame Buffer Triple Triple
CPU Optimization Intel(R) Pentium(R) III D3D Hardware T&L



3DMark Result
(3D marks) 3067

4251


CPU Speed
(CPU 3D marks) 286.7

363.9


Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail
(FPS) 59.5

83.4

Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail
(FPS) 41.4

59.6

Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail
(FPS) 17.7

27.4


Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail
(FPS) 53.6

80.1

Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail
(FPS) 48.1

63.0

Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail
(FPS) 35.1

40.7


Fill Rate (Single-Texturing)
(MTexels/s) 281.5

216.6

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing)
(MTexels/s) 281.7

427.5


High Polygon Count (1 Light)
(KTriangles/s) 2958.4

6431.7

High Polygon Count (4 Lights)
(KTriangles/s) 2731.6

5191.7

High Polygon Count (8 Lights)
(KTriangles/s) 2466.8

4226.8


8MB Texture Rendering Speed
(FPS) 171.0

187.5

16MB Texture Rendering Speed
(FPS) 164.8

76.3

32MB Texture Rendering Speed
(FPS) 129.8

9.0

64MB Texture Rendering Speed
(FPS) 112.4

3.3


Bump Mapping (Emboss 3-pass)
(FPS) 70.2

131.8

Bump Mapping (Emboss 2-pass)
(FPS) 92.8

178.3

Bump Mapping (Emboss 1-pass)
(FPS) 158.6

Not available

Bump Mapping (Environment)
(FPS) 80.4

Not available