February 1997 / BYTE Hardware Lab Report

13 Graphics Cards for Business Graphics Boards Growing Up	Professional-level 2-D graphics cards grow increasingly sophisticated. Most now have low-end 3-D features. - by Dorothy Hudson, Jim Kane,and John McDonough
Graphics Accelerators	The 13 cards we tested in this Lab Report offer a wide range of capabilities to accelerate your system into the world of multimedia or high-resolution 2-D CAD applications.
Will Direct3D Conquer All?	If you follow Internet newsgroups such as comp.graphics.api.opengl, you may have noticed the intense and ongoing debate concerning the relative merits of Microsoft OpenGL, Microsoft Direct3D, and Silicon Graphics' Cosmo OpenGL. - by Steve Platt
Graphics Accelerator Ratings Best Overall: VideoLogic GrafixStar 450 VideoLogic GrafixStar 450
Details Twin Turbo 128P8 Watch Your Software from The Comfy Chair	High-Res True Color: Many of the cards we tested support resolutions up to 1600 by 1200 pixels, some with visually comfortable high refresh rates.
TV Junkie Alert ATI-TV	For information junkies, the ability to surf TV channels while working at a PC can be invaluable.
Test Specs Test Results	In rating graphics cards, we put strong emphasis on performance.

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