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Online Hardware Review Media community has a
solid focus on 3D Graphics performance and
technology as a whole. This goes without
saying. Too often the Digital Video
Subsystem of a particular graphics card goes
untested and evaluated. Perhaps this is
because there are still relatively few benchmark
suites or utilities available to the masses.
MadOnion...
By the way, what the heck is the deal with the
name of this company? " I am a VERY
angry Onion and therefore I am going to
benchmark my booty off!" I mean
really, someone in marketing was sniffing the
super glue a little too much on their lunch
break, to come up with this one! :-)
But I digress...
MadOnion,
known the world over for the comprehensive and
technically complete 3D Graphics benchmark
3DMark 2000,
has delivered yet another quality benchmark
package, this time stepping up to the challenge
of Digital Video Benchmarking. This new digital
video benchmarking suite is called
Video2000.
The
following is a quick look at the relative
performance, features and quality of the digital
video playback and MPEG encode/decoding of some
of the top graphics accelerators in the
market. We tested ATI's Rage Fury
128 Pro , Elsa's Erazor X2 DDR GeForce, Matrox's
Millennium G400 and 3dfx's Voodoo3-3500TV.
All extremely competent 3D cards in their own
respect. Let's see how they stack up in a
Video2000 Round-Up.
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