i740 vs Riva TNT

[Rafael]

I need a nice 2D card to work with images (CorelDraw, photoshop, etc) I know that the TNT is a great board (I already own one) but I dont know if this board is too good for this job, so I could use the i740 instead. I don't care about 3D but 2D and price, the i740 here is 4 times cheaper than the TNT.

Any help is aprreciated.

Rafa

[Martin]

If u don't care about about 3d..
Then u have to get a Matrox G200...
It is just the best card for 2d,,and is quite in 3d in D3D(not too good in opengl)

But best 2D

[Martin]

Also the Matrox productiva G100 is great in 2d(just like the G200) but suk in 3d..
But is very cheap 1/2 of the G200
85$(canadian)

[Tony M]

i740 is good because you can get it for under $40 US. See it as low as $34
Tony

[RobRich]

Unusual enough, I would actually recommend a Voodoo Banshee or Voodoo3 card. I know you said you need 2d graphics, well to many people's surprise, both have the complete Windows graphical driver interface in hardware (no other 2d/3d card has this). They also are based completelely on a 128-bit 2D accelerator. I own an i740 8meg AGP card, and my Banshee destroys it in both 2d and 3d. The i740 was a good idea about a year ago. The Matrox cards are decent, but they are also lagging in technology, even the great G200 series can't compete with the Voodoo3 for 2d.