What Level of Performance Do You DEMAND?

[Rags]

Like the title asks, what level of performance do you DEMAND as the bare minimum that a card such as Parhelia perform at?

Since there were a few other polls concerning performance, I thought I would make my own

Clarifier: I am talking about raw 3D speed.


Rags

[EvilDonnyboy]

You should have a >GF4 option. Voted for 8500, because thats what I own. I'm not too keen on spending half a grand on something slower than what I already have, even if it does have a better overall image quality (and probably better drivers).

[DGhost]

i think greater than GF4 levels... as long as its not in Q3/UT/NVMark..

[newguy]

60-75 fps, sustained, no frame stutter at all, even with all options enabled, 32 bpp, AA, etc.

NO color banding. NO jagged edges ANYWHERE.

And. of course, as little CPU setup dependency as possible.

[mdhome]

I want a fast card capable of playing UT2 and Doom3 games at medium/high res with all the eye candy and at a decent FPS.

REgards MD

[KeiFront]

I'm missing the Matrox Millenium in the poll

[Reckless]

GF3 and above speed with all the bells and whistles enabled. Doesn't matter how quick it runs if it doesn't look good in the process.

[bm1]

GF4 + speed and nothing less.

[SteveC]

NOTHING beats a Trident VLB!

[xortam]

My previous card (now have the Max) was a Weiteck P9000 VLB from Diamond driven by a 486/DX2-66 (no PCI MBs available yet then). I don't demand more than my Max right now but if I was going to buy a new card (and the P begs me too), then I'd expect to get leading edge performance, quality, and features (P again!). I might put the P in my current P!!!/850 machine for a short while but I plan on buying another PC for it which will be near-top performance in its market at that time. Like the P itself, I like to have a system with a balance of performance among its components.

[Snake-Eyes]

I'm with newguy on this one. Out of the list above, I'd have said GF4, because it's currently the closest currently on the market to making that a reality (all features on, vsync enabled, so greater than monitor refresh framerates spikes are a moot point, etc.).

[TdB]

But I NEED 3000fps!! I just signed up for a framerate pissing contest!


j/k

[Belsebub]

Speed as GF4 but with mutch better picture

[blacklotus]

Speed equal or better than GF4Ti4400 but image quality at least as good as a G400MAX.

[superfly]

Performance that's quite a bit above GF4 Ti 4600 for one,even more so considering that the parhelia will probably be available in high enough volume in perhaps 2~3 months time and by then,Faster cards will be offcially anounced/released by competitors....