Banshee Fill Rates

[Wilan Wong]

I was wondering how fast the Banshee's fill rate was? I also want to know almost all of the specs of the Banshee? Against V2, V2 SLI, V3.

[RobRich]

Different companies clocked the banshee's core to different speed, but 3dfx's defualt was 100mhz, thus it had a 100 mpixel/sec and 100 mtexel/sec fill rate. The banshee only has one texture mapping unit, so it can't benifit from multitextuing games like the v2 or v3 can. Good news though, with just a good 486 fan attached to their heatsink, the banshee's would commonly overclock to 120mhz for core and memory.

[This message has been edited by RobRich (edited 02-10-2000).]

[Szech]

Well, performance-wise, stock out of the box:

12MB V2 < 16MB Banshee < 24MB (total) V2 SLI <= V3.

Other factors to consider: the V2 has a max resolution of 800 X 600, the 8MB Banshee sucks, and as was already mentioned, Banshee can be overclocked pretty well, as well as V3 depending on your cooling..

[This message has been edited by Szech (edited 02-10-2000).]