Matrox G400 Revisited

Pentium III 600 OpenGL Performance

With a Pentium III 600 backing it up, the G400 MAX is pretty much unstoppable, only getting edged out at 640x480 by the Voodoo3 3000. A resolution as low as 640x480 is usually CPU and graphics driver limited, so the showing here is a huge testament to Matrox's new TurboGL. Notice that all the cards that support 32-bit rendering only take a minimal performance hit when 32-bit rendering is enabled. The G400 MAX with 32-bit enabled even beats the TNT2 Ultra at 16-bit.

At 800x600, the G400 MAX and TNT2 surpass the Voodoo3 3000. The G400 MAX even provides 32-bit rendering that is just about 1 fps below the 16-bit of the Voodoo3 3000. The regular G400, TNT2, and Voodoo3 2000 are all pretty much on par.

Upping the resolution to1024x768 produces results relatively identical to results at 800x600.