Scottsdale, Arizona-based Mercury Research Inc has just published its latest set of graphics accelerator chip benchmarking figures. 3Dfx Interactive Inc’s Voodoo2 chipset logged the best score for the second quarter in a row. The 600 page quarterly report, called PC Graphics Chip Sets and Technologies ’98, tested 25 graphics accelerator chips incorporated in various boards. The success of the Voodoo2 may be down to the fact that it is a multi-chip system dedicated to 3D-only gaming. Out of the single- chip implementations, the Matrox G200 chip scored highest, an NVida Riva 128-based board also scoring well. Mercury used Ziff- Davis’ 3D WinBench 98 and the benchmarking mode of ‘X’ from Egosoft. The board’s testbed was a PC based around a 400Mhz Pentium II with 64Mb and MMX extensions. The full report is available for $1995, further details from www.mercuryresearch.com.
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