Horses for courses. For 3D gaming, the Voodoo is the clear winner. It is both faster and supports more features than the Permedia2.
For 2D, things are a bit more levelled out since the RTG layer tends to use HW acceleration for the most basic operations.
The BVision will win hands down over a mediator1200 attached graphics card for any task where transferring data over the bus is the limiting factor, at least in OS3.x at any rate.
That last point has had me puzzled for a couple days Karlos. Yes the Bvision would have a clear advantage in transfer rate over anything tied to an expansion bus.
But I'm still not sure that that alone would be enough to give it an edge in 2D operations.
Are there any benchmarks that could be run to compare both alternatives?
And for 3d operations, I think I'd prefer a Radeon 8500 or 9000 (over a Voodoo3), but the Voodoo3 is probably the better supported card.
