Mediator/Grex: Will it fit on a desktop A1200 if.....

[Mad-Matt]

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If you only need a graphics card, why not go for a BVision instead.

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Because i already have one, but it's a little slow. Specially in 3D operations.

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Youll get the shock of youre life when youve destroyed your amigas case and found that you have gained absolutly no performance boost over the bvision especially with the med and voodoo3 where youll lose performance due to the zorroII bottleneck.  Its not the gfx procesor thats slow, its the amiga thats simply not fast enough to drive it any faster.

[Mad-Matt]

What you say does shock me indeed! Are you sure about this? I keep hearing that the Voodoo3 is faster than the BVision!.. *shrugs*
Also, have a look at this site: http://www.amigaspeed.de.vu/ Both the 2D benchmarks and the 3D games performances are suggesting that Voodoo3 is faster..

Edit: Hmm, on a second look, some 2D functions are a bit slower on the Voodoo3 but most of them are faster.

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The vooodoo gfx processor is certainly faster then the permedia2 used on the bvision, but its the amiga itself thats not fast enough to use the voodoo to its full potential.  The difference in 2d speeds are in my mind are down to what 2d acceleration functions are used in p96 and cgfx4 so not neccesseraly comparable (as you cant used p96 on bvis) Personaly I find cgfx the best in regards to supported hardware acceleraton.  As for games, the only 3d game thats faster is the voodoo specific BlitzQuake which runs 2-3 fps faster with all effects enabled then the basic glquake on bvision.  Allother warp3d games are faster on the bvision.since the ppc processor has direct access to the bvis.  Grex is the best choice for a ppc system, the gfx driver no less developed then the mediator voodoo driver, but I have no personaly experience of grex unfortunatly to compare, but mediator is deffinatly no fun with a ppc card.  The loss of the built in Mode promotion to see boot menus and such makes mediator less fun to use also, as you need to connect a second monitor to get thing set up or fix boot faults.