3Dfx first to break 1000 in 3D Winbench 98
Despite the drivers not yet being fully optimized, the 3Dfx Interactive card scored 1,350 points in the dual board scanlined interleave configuration or, 1260 points with a single board, almost 400 points above its nearest competitor.
3Dfx first to break 1000 in 3D Winbench 98 is the story today, and it fits right into the fast-moving PC gaming pileup of June 1998. 3Dfx Interactive today announced that a pre-production version of its new software reference driver for Microsoft DirectX 6.0 brings new performance gains to its Voodoo2 chipset for 3D graphics, breaking a world record as the first 3D accelerator to exceed 1000 points in the 3D Winbench 98 benchmark from Ziff Davis Benchmarking Operation. Despite the drivers not yet being fully optimized, the 3Dfx Interactive card scored 1,350 points in the dual board scanlined interleave configuration or, 1260 points with a single board, almost 400 points above its nearest competitor. The test was conducted on a PC with an Intel® Pentium® II 400 MHz processor using the beta version of DirectX 6.0 distributed last month at the Computer Game Developers Conference. For players keeping one eye on patches, demos, hardware, and whatever the big studios are cooking up next, this is exactly the kind of update that can disappear in a day and matter a month later. Welcome to PC gaming, where the news moves faster than most download mirrors.