How much of a difference between Voodoo and Blizzardvision?

[mantisspider]

Hi Mate,

CU Amiga says that it performs better than Z-II and runs at 8Mb/s.
I was wondering about getting a PCI to ISA adapter and sticking a Voodoo onto the ateo busboard using the voodoo. I am guessing that using the PCI drivers for the voodoo on the amiga wont work on the Ateo busboard.

You think there would be any chance this would work?

[CU_AMiGA]

mantisspider wrote:
Hi Mate,

CU Amiga says...........

:lol:

Almost got a bit confused there! :-)

[Ryu]

@mantisspider

No such driver exists for a voodoo on the pixel busboard thingy, the only gfx card driver that exists for it is for the Pixel64, I had an ateo setup and man was it slooooooooooow, still good enough for workbench, but that was about it.. also all the people I know who have had or indeed still the ateo bus complain about it being very loose on the accelerator slot, so any slight movement at the who lot refuses to boot, I had the same problem with mine for the short space of time I owned it.

[spavatch]

And how about Voodoo Graphics or Voodoo2? (SLI, yeah baby!) :-) It would be nice, wouldn't it? If Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo3 work nice - why not their predecessors? It seems possible... :-) SLI Voodoo2 would sure be the fastest and and most affordable solution on the market! And ofcourse the most PCI-slot hungry one :-D

[Crumb]

@spavatch:
A simple Radeon7000 or 7500 should be MUCH faster than 2Voodoos2... come on... even a simple Voodoo3 was usually faster...

And keep in mind that using 2 voodoo2 usually required to have 2 voodoo2 of the same manofacturer to make them work...

@mantisspider
I would go for a 2nd hand mediator... with the Ateo you get a ISA SVGA card and that's all. A friend of mine tried to make a NE2000 work without luck and has some stability problems...
A 2nd hand Mediator is more expensive but will give you more options...

[spavatch]

A simple Radeon would be faster (or not) if there were any drivers... It would be much easier to adapt/convert Voodoo3 drivers for use with older models than write new ones for ATI products. Oh, and remember - as Karlos said: both (Radeon and Voodoo) are attached by buses that are vastly slower than each chip can make use of. I doubt if there would be any performance gain.

[Karlos]

Actually I was referring to the Permedia2 and Voodoo, but the same would hold true for any Mediator/Prometheus/GRex attached gfx card.

Local operations on the card will naturally be very quick, and faster cards will always do better. However, when you have to send lots of information to the GPU, eventually you will hit the bus limit and that will level out most cards currently used.