December '97 3D Video Accelerator Comparison

Due to its pipelined FPU, the Pentium MMX pushes the limits of the "Low-end" of the 3D Video Accelerator Comparison, a Pentium MMX Socket-7 system would be classified more accurately, under Quake 2 at least, as being a mid-range system.  The leader in this case, regardless of how you classify the Pentium MMX, is the Voodoo 2 yet again.

The ATI card does perform a little better under Quake 2 when paired with the Pentium MMX, however the new OpenGL drivers are still no reason to purchase a 3D Rage Pro based accelerator over the competing cards which offer much more for the money. 

Voodoo and Riva 128 accelerators seem offer outstanding performance on the Pentium MMX, although not up to par with the Voodoo 2, they still rack in the frames.  The Rendition V2x00 cards (Stealth II & Thriller 3D) also seem to do fairly well in Quake 2, all of those above choices being excellent alternatives to the newly released (and difficult to find) Voodoo 2 boards.