Hercules Thriller 3D Rendition V2x00 Accelerator
by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 5, 1997 2:56 PM EST- Posted in
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2D - Windows 95 Performance - Intel Pentium II 300 (66MHz x 4.5) - AOpen AX6L |
Video Card |
Business Winstone 97 | High End Winstone 97 |
ATI Xpert@Work (AGP) |
64.4 |
31.8 |
California Graphics 3D Emotion (PCI) |
6 0.5 |
3 0.0 |
Canopus Total3D 128V (PCI) |
62.4 |
30.9 |
Creative Labs GB EXXTREME (PCI) |
66.8 |
30.8 |
Diamond Monster 3D (PCI) |
N/A |
N/A |
Diamond Stealth II 3D (PCI) |
63.7 |
29.9 |
Diamond Viper V330 (AGP) |
64.1 |
31.6 |
Diamond Viper V330 (PCI) |
63.9 |
31.2 |
Hercules Thriller 3D (PCI) |
6 3.5 |
3 0.4 |
Intergraph Intense 3D (PCI) |
6 0.1 |
2 9.2 |
Matrox M3D (PCI) |
N/A |
N/A |
Matrox Millennium II (AGP) |
65.4 |
32.1 |
Matrox Millennium II (PCI) |
63.6 |
31.8 |
STB Velocity 128 (AGP) |
64.3 |
31.9 |
3D - Quake 2 Timedemo Performance - Intel Pentium II 300 (66MHz x 4.5) - AOpen AX6L |
Video Card |
DEMO1 | DEMO2 |
ATI Xpert@Work (AGP) |
18.1 fps |
16.5 fps |
California Graphics 3D Emotion (PCI) |
20.2 fps | 20.5 fps |
Canopus Total3D 128V (PCI) |
37.1 fps | 35.4 fps |
Creative Labs GB EXXTREME (PCI) |
15.0 fps |
13.2 fps |
Diamond Monster 3D (PCI) |
25.6 fps |
22.6 fps |
Diamond Stealth II 3D (PCI) |
17.8 fps |
18.1 fps |
Diamond Viper V330 (AGP) |
37.3 fps | 35.6 fps |
Diamond Viper V330 (PCI) |
36.1 fps | 34.7 fps |
Hercules Thriller 3D (PCI) |
23.0 fps | 23.2 fps |
Intergraph Intense 3D (PCI) |
19.1 fps | 19.5 fps |
Matrox M3D (PCI) |
19.4 fps |
17.4 fps |
Supported 3D Features | |
Feature | Hercules Thriller 3D |
Anti Aliasing | Capable |
Alpha Bending | Capable |
Bilinear Filtering | Capable |
Gouraud Shading | Capable |
Hardware Triangle Setup | Capable |
Mip Mapping | Capable |
Perspective Correction | Capable |
Texture Mapping | Capable |
Transparency | Capable |
Z-Buffering | Capable |
Image Quality
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If you're set on buying a Rendition Verite based card, give the $129 price-tag of the Thriller 3D a whirl, although the 8MB version is a bit overpriced, you do get a considerable amount for the money. For you Pentium II users...what are you doing reading this review? Grab a Riva card instead ;)
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pavag - Sunday, July 3, 2016 - link
First comment!johnnycanadian - Monday, July 4, 2016 - link
First comment! ... dammit, I was just beat. I'll be quicker on the draw when the Monster3D is reviewed. :-)pavag - Sunday, July 3, 2016 - link
Couldn't resist to make first comment 19 years after the article was published :DJust reached this page by chance. I didn't even knew Anandtech was this old!