Well, I ran some quick benchmarks using Mac OS 8 and Speedometer 4.02. For some reason that I cannot figure out in the limited time I have this weekend I cannot get the internal video to benchmark at 16 bits/pixel and 24 bits/pixel is not an option in the benchmark. Tattletech does not show the installed amount of videoram on both the internal video and expansion card. Internal is at maximum though and the desktop was showing at 24 bits/pixel (millions of colors). The results of the benchmark of the internal video are consistent with the included benchmark file for the Quadra 700. Just some minor differences in the second decimal which can be attributed to System version and rounding, I guess.
So, there you have it. The card is somewhat slower than the internal video. Not something to proudly present as a company when using the 'faster' bus that the new computer included I guess? Even though you would use the card as just an expansion of the usable desktop with a second monito. But you will probably get shredded by the reviewers for launching an 'inferior' card. So RasterOps, which seems to have been in financial trouble at that time probably pulled the card before entering production and this would be a developer version of the card??
Does anyone have the benchmarks of the NuBus variety (the 24Mx)?
Any thoughts on things I have forgotten/missed to do or could have done better for testing? Probably under system 7.1/7.5, but I didn't have a disk that included that version.
So, there you have it. The card is somewhat slower than the internal video. Not something to proudly present as a company when using the 'faster' bus that the new computer included I guess? Even though you would use the card as just an expansion of the usable desktop with a second monito. But you will probably get shredded by the reviewers for launching an 'inferior' card. So RasterOps, which seems to have been in financial trouble at that time probably pulled the card before entering production and this would be a developer version of the card??
Does anyone have the benchmarks of the NuBus variety (the 24Mx)?
Any thoughts on things I have forgotten/missed to do or could have done better for testing? Probably under system 7.1/7.5, but I didn't have a disk that included that version.