Fastest NUBUS-Graphics Card?

[Unknown_K]

My IIfx with 32MB of RAM and OS 7.1 are speedy as hell. Thunder/24 video cards with 4MB Gworld RAM/

 

[dr.zeissler]

Please make Benchmarks and link them. (Speedometer 4.x)

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Thx, I am a retro-gamer. I think I'll stick to the onboard-video then.

That's the way to do gaming. Nubus video is a different beast entirely. Speed comparisons between the two are an apples/oranges kind of deal.

After the first simple frame buffer cards from Apple for the Macintosh II series, NuBus cards became about pushing higher pixel counts into deeper depths, most with QuickDraw acceleration and some with DSP support for Photoshop filters. Running a second (larger/deeper) screen for graphics work was a huge benefit for workflow in the Mac's content creation niche, even after onboard video increased in capability beyond the simple speed advantage afforded by location on the CPU bus.

Mac onboard video (68030 or Quadra) was far superior to anything on the PC side, as were the Mac's NuBus based video cards until the several flavors of Local Bus implementations took hold in that world. There was no parity whatsoever until the VLB stopgap rolled out, but that was well into the Quadra era. Things began changing once the speed limited, 16bit shackles come off on the PC side, but for high end graphics, NuBus was king until the dawn of the PCI era.