From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 31 18:00:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA21235 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 18:00:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA21227 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 18:00:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA06521; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 17:59:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 17:59:19 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey To: dkelly@HiWAAY.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X server performance and video cards In-Reply-To: <199711010101.TAA08922@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Am thinking about a new video card. Any pointers of relative > performance of one card versus another? Have heard the Matrox Millenium > family is well liked and very fast, but where/how is this quantified? The Millenium is a very fast card, especially for $129. It is quantified(by me) by real world use. I have never run a benchmark on it, although it scores very well in Windows benchmarks. (Don't know about Unix benchmarks for graphics cards)