2D Performance
Apparently the world can't live without 2D performance numbers, so here they are ;) Since the performance of all of the cards was virtually identical to one another at the lower resolutions, the basis for comparison was 1600 x 1200 x 32-bit color. The performance leader here is 3Dfx's Voodoo3, however most users won't notice any difference in the speed at which your windows pop up.
In terms of 2D quality, the leaders in this comparison would be the Voodoo3 and the Matrox G200, followed by the Banshee, then the Rage 128, and finally the TNT. Ever since the release of the Banshee, it seems as if 3dfx has concentrated quite a large portion of their effort towards producing a well made 2D/3D solution, without skimping on the 2D.
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ssvegeta1010 - Tuesday, August 2, 2005 - link
Necro-comment. :)dac7nco - Sunday, June 19, 2011 - link
Gotcha BeatThatguy97 - Sunday, May 3, 2015 - link
Gotcha beat toololipopman - Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - link
Gotcha beat as well.snowmyr - Thursday, October 6, 2016 - link
I'm torn between this or the TNT2. I think I'm going with the Voodoo3 because vowels are important to me.MajGenRelativity - Thursday, June 8, 2017 - link
But the TNT2 explodes with two times the force of the original one!munky - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - link
Plus it's got AGP texturing... It'll come in really handy when future games start using gigabytes of textures.ruthan - Monday, April 29, 2019 - link
Here wer are AGP texturing on Voodoo 3 is just gimmick.kithylin - Tuesday, May 11, 2021 - link
Some of us are still looking at Voodoo3 performance figures in 2021.Kaffee.Genosse - Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - link
The article is back from the grave! This was my first 3D accelerator in my first whitebox personal computer, awesome card! =D