Andrew Tyson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was curious which of these two framebuffers would be better
> for general 2D stuff like web browsing (with flash content) and
> other multimedia content. The Creator is SBus based in a dual 400MHz
> U2, whilst the Elite card is in a U60 with dual 450MHz.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Andrew
>
>
Lets get a few things straight. There are 3 types of Elite graphics
cards; 1) M6 horizontal, 2) M6 vertical and 3) M3 vertical. The
difference between M3 & M6 are the floating point processors, where M3 =
3 processors and M6 = 6 floating point processors. I have 2 Ultra 2's
with the Elite 3D-M6 cards. They are UPA based, and horizontal. The
Elite 3D cards you specify for the Ultra 60's are vertical. One
horizontal card cannot be interchanged with a vertical card, but both
are Elite cards. The Creator cards are UPA cards also, I replaced my
Creator 3D cards with my Elite 3D-M6 cards. Now, to get to the root of
your question, when I replaced my Creator cards with the Elite card,
IMO, the 2D graphics didn't change much or sped up a little, and the 3D
capability sped up considerably. My choice would always be an Elite 3D
card.

Paul