Nay, don't tempt me!
I think I'll hold out at least until Q2 2000 before upgrading from my trusty
TNT. By that time HTL, bump mapping and (hopefully) texture compression should
be standard features... And if the current trend continues, we'll have more
video memory than system memory.

Margus

POV-Ray Newsadmin wrote:
> 
> The Matrox G400 makes a (decent) attempt at it (though id says that it isn't as
> useful as it might seem to be, in terms of Quake 3).
> 
> But still, if you want to see the specs on a truely psycho graphics card, check
> out the G400. This thing does TV output (PAL/NTSC), *two* different displays
> simultaneously (plug in two monitors, one monitor and one TV, or whatever you
> want), it has direct support for digital flat panels, and resolution of up to
> 2048x1536 @ 32bpp. Plus its 3d hardware is so fast that the id folks thought
> they'd made a mistake in their benchmarks when they first ran them on it.
> 
>   http://www.matrox.com/mga/g400/home.htm

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