October 1998 - Super7 3D Video Accelerator Comparison

Here's a perfect example of the Banshee's capable nature as a Voodoo2 competitor.  With a Pentium MMX 200, which offers very little performance for the graphics card to feed off of, the 100MHz clock of the Banshee gives it the edge over the Voodoo2 clocked at 90MHz even in spite of the Voodoo2's second texture processing unit.  This is even more evident in the case of the SiN benchmark as it seems that the demo doesn't make extensive use of multi-texturing as the Quake 2 engine is supposed to do.  Regardless of how SiN was written, one thing is present, the Voodoo2's incredible performance does not extend to the realm of SiN or games like it on a processor like the Pentium MMX. 

The Riva 128 comes in second place...but it still cannot be recommended over the Rendition, Banshee, or even the Voodoo2.  Why?   Image quality.  The Riva 128 offers the absolute worst image quality out of the entire roundup as you'll be able to see in the image quality comparison at the end of the article.

The K6/200 barely pulls the Voodoo2 over the performance of the Banshee, and it also kicks the V2x00 closer to the performance of the nVidia Riva TNT.  The winner in this case, once again, from a performance perspective, is nVidia with the Riva TNT.

Thriving on the increased clock speed, the Voodoo2 shoves it's weaker brother back into the closet as it comes in a close third place.  The TNT offers first class performance once again, as far as that term can be used for a performance figure under 23 fps.