Matrox Millenium g200 vs. Voodoo Banshee

[Swiller of Beer]

I have an old PC that I'm fixing up out of spare parts for my in-laws. Right now it has a Matrox Millenium G200 AGP card in it. I have a Voodoo Banshee laying around doing nothing. So, which one is better?

 

[wanderer27]

Wow, talk about bringing up old memories.

One of the first Systems I built, I was looking at the Banshee, but the G200 come at shortly thereafter, and it was the better card and the one I went with.

 

[Brian48]

I do not consider either card good for anything other than desktop or workstation duties. In that regard, I'd easily take the G200 over the Banshee simply because the image quality and 2D is absolutely superb, especially when view extremely large spreadsheet. A shame Matrox has all but disappeared from the consumer market.

 

[Swiller of Beer]

Originally posted by: Brian48
I do not consider either card good for anything other than desktop or workstation duties. In that regard, I'd easily take the G200 over the Banshee simply because the image quality and 2D is absolutely superb, especially when view extremely large spreadsheet. A shame Matrox has all but disappeared from the consumer market.

All that this box will be doing is websurfing and playing old games. I was just wanting to see if the Banshee was even worth bothering with.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Banshee = voodoo2 - 1 TMU, it will not perform as good as a single Voodoo2, but should run better than a voodoo1. The 2D on my Voodoo3 was as good as my Matrox cards, I imagine the Banshee has similar 2D quality. I would say go with the Banshee for gaming, if it is going to be running really old games, chances are a few of them run in GLIDE mode and a Banshee can do that. Just be sure you use Windows 98 on the machine, I doubt that the Windows 2K/Xp drivers (if they exist) are very stable.

 

[Compton]

I used a G200 for a long time. Once Matrox released the driver that had full OpenGL support it wasn't a bad card, for older games of course.

 

[mozirry]

Make sure you still have your copy of win 95