sergey
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I am trying to test and benchmark some of the ISA VGA cards that I have. Of course, something like this has been done before, for example see:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=57459, https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=37844 and https://www.philscomputerlab.com/phils-ultimate-vga-benchmark-database-project.html
Unfortunately these tests seem to measure the overall system performance with an application that also happen to generate VGA output, rather than measuring the VGA performance specifically. See the table below. Some of my results are surprising, e.g. getting higher FPS with PC Player on an 8-bit Paradise PVGA1A vs. 16-bit OTI037C, or getting an insignificant performance difference in Quake benchmark.
Ideally, I'd like to do something that would isolate VGA performance measurement from everything else. Perhaps something like measuring write speed to VGA? It is likely that the speed will depend on the video mode too, so it might sense to measure several popular modes: 320x200-256 colors, 320x240-256 colors (X-mode), 640x480-16 colors, and a few SVGA modes for these cards that support SVGA (800x600-256 colors, 1024x768-16 colors, etc.)
Any suggestions for benchmarks that already do that?
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=57459, https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=37844 and https://www.philscomputerlab.com/phils-ultimate-vga-benchmark-database-project.html
Unfortunately these tests seem to measure the overall system performance with an application that also happen to generate VGA output, rather than measuring the VGA performance specifically. See the table below. Some of my results are surprising, e.g. getting higher FPS with PC Player on an 8-bit Paradise PVGA1A vs. 16-bit OTI037C, or getting an insignificant performance difference in Quake benchmark.
Ideally, I'd like to do something that would isolate VGA performance measurement from everything else. Perhaps something like measuring write speed to VGA? It is likely that the speed will depend on the video mode too, so it might sense to measure several popular modes: 320x200-256 colors, 320x240-256 colors (X-mode), 640x480-16 colors, and a few SVGA modes for these cards that support SVGA (800x600-256 colors, 1024x768-16 colors, etc.)
Any suggestions for benchmarks that already do that?
VGA Card \ Benchmark | 3DBench (FPS) | PC Player (FPS) | Doom, low resolution, low detail (FPS) | Quake 320x200 (FPS) |
Trident TVGA9000A | 10.6 | 2.5 | 15.8 | 1.2 |
Oak Technologies OTI037C | 7.2 | 2.2 | 14.3 | 1.1 |
Cirrus Logic CL-GD5420 | 12.1 | 2.6 | 18.1 | 1.2 |
Trident TVGA9000I-1 | 10.6 | 2.5 | 15.8 | 1.2 |
Realtek RTG3106 | 11.1 | 2.5 | 16 | 1.2 |
Tseng Labs ET4000AX | 11.7 | 2.5 | 17.8 | 1.2 |
Cirrus Logic CL-GD510/20 (8-bit ISA) | 7.2 | 2.2 | 14.4 | 1.1 |
Paradise PVGA1A (8-bit ISA) | 8.5 | 2.3 | 15.7 | 1.2 |