February 1996 / BYTE Lab Product Report

18 Graphics Cards Quick On The Draw Graphics Cards Face-Up	Pick from among these 18 graphics cards to intensify your pixel production at high resolutions - by Jim Kane and John McDonough
The Best In Ultrafast Graphics Adapters Weightings for Best Overall and Low Cost Weightings for 32-bit Color and High Resolution Best Overall: Elsa America Gloria 4 32-Bit Color: Matrox Graphics MGA Millennium High Resolution: Elsa America Winner 2000Pro/X-4 Low Cost: Actix GE Ultra 64 AV-4MB Elsa America Gloria 4 Matrox Graphics MGA Millenium Elsa America Winner 2000Pro/X-4 Actix GE Ultra 64 AV-4MB MPEG: Pay For Play Bigger Not Always Better	Whenever someone says that he or she is updating a PC, the first components that usually come to mind are a larger hard drive, a RAM upgrade, or maybe a faster modem for Internet browsing.
Diamond'S New Edge Diamond Edge is Sharp	In the fiercely competitive market for Windows accelerators, vendors are always looking for an edge. - by Stanford Diehl
Honorable Mentions DirectDraw API for Windows 95 Support Glint Chip Provides More Than a Glimmer of VRML	Elsa Incorporates Glint Chip for Accelerated 3-D
How We Tested Sometimes He's the Tortoise, Sometimes the Hare	The 18 graphics adapters that we tested have such varied configurations and price points (ranging from less than $200 to almost $3000) that we divided the cards into four different categories: best overall, 32-bit color, high resolution, and low cost.

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