Shrout Says Intel Said 2020 on Discrete GPU

[Deleted member 83233]

I740 take ..4?

I actually did compatibility testing (not at Intel) for the i740. It was actually a half-decent chip. Not precisely state of the art, but definitely a solid entry for the time. The only issue was that Intel couldn't write video drivers back then to save their lives, so they had all manner of problems. If I remember correctly I played a bit of Incoming on the test cards. At least I think that was in the suite at the time. (I did a LOT of video card testing back then. It could be that it was the Matrox G200 that I played that on... The i740s weren't amazing like I said, but they were definitely quite playable in many of the test suite games.

Edit: Just looked up the time-frames. Pretty sure it was both the i740 and the G200 that we tested with Incoming, as that was a game being tested in the labs at the time. All of these were '98ish. I think I was running a Creative Voodoo II and possibly a Riva 128 AGP as the main card around that time at home. The i740 wouldn't have kept up with either, but wasn't exactly awful either... Just those drivers...

 

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I actually did compatibility testing (not at Intel) for the i740. It was actually a half-decent chip. Not precisely state of the art, but definitely a solid entry for the time. The only issue was that Intel couldn't write video drivers back then to save their lives, so they had all manner of problems. If I remember correctly I played a bit of Incoming on the test cards. At least I think that was in the suite at the time. (I did a LOT of video card testing back then. It could be that it was the Matrox G200 that I played that on... The i740s weren't amazing like I said, but they were definitely quite playable in many of the test suite games.

Edit: Just looked up the time-frames. Pretty sure it was both the i740 and the G200 that we tested with Incoming, as that was a game being tested in the labs at the time. All of these were '98ish. I think I was running a Creative Voodoo II and possibly a Riva 128 AGP as the main card around that time at home. The i740 wouldn't have kept up with either, but wasn't exactly awful either... Just those drivers...

Now awfull or not is strongly subjective. i rember the hype about how it was going to be new performance leader//best value due to it using AGP texture mapping to save memory./.
but when it arrived the performance/dollars was not just there/ neither top performance which makes the product obsolete in my eye.

TLR It was not in anyway or shape parato frontier material.

 

[Deleted member 83233]

Now awfull or not is strongly subjective. i rember the hype about how it was going to be new performance leader//best value due to it using AGP texture mapping to save memory./.
but when it arrived the performance/dollars was not just there/ neither top performance which makes the product obsolete in my eye.

TLR It was not in anyway or shape parato frontier material.

No, it definitely wasn’t. I think the short way of putting what I wrote, is that it was better than I expected it to be. I didn’t expect much, so I was slightly impressed that it was as good as it was.