On 13/02/2004, at 5:10 AM, Tim Larson wrote:
On 2/12/2004 11:17 AM, Powermac felt like writing:
I think the fastest boards were the ones made by Radius for the last nubus
macs (Radius Thunder IV Gx 1600) since by that time they were one of the few
companies left. The built in video is generally faster then anything you can
plug into a slow nubus slot, but you are limited to 2mb of vram. Since the
840AV machine has built in DSP's finding a video card with dsp's (the radius
I mentioned) would probably be a waste of time (and doesn't work with os 8.x
I believe). I have an inexpensive Supermac Thunder 24 (Radius purchased
The speed of Nubus hadn't crossed my mind. Good point. Any rough ideas on how much speed one gets from DSPs?
I have a Thunder IV 1360, and using it in a Powermac 7100 with the DSP plugins for photoshop 4.0 lets it resize/gaussian blur/some other filters almost the speed of my G3/400 iMac (tested on some of large images). It's a phenomenal boost for those features it helps. For everything else, it's just a nice quick and featureful NuBus graphics card. It does run a little slower in the 68ks I've used it on, but not in any way deficient.
If you like flashing lights, it's a nice card too. There's a row of LEDs on the card itself that indicate when a DSP is being used. They flash away like crazy in photoshop :)
dana
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