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[snapty00]

Does anybody know if any companies like Argonaut, Midway, and Nova Logic ever released realistic benchmarks for the Super FX chip?

I know that Nintendo officially said that it can produce 20,000 polygons per second, but I'm sure that's theoretical rather than realistic.

I also wonder what Sega's comparable chip could do. I heard that it could get similar performance but cost more.

 

[doncale]

good question.

probably of that 20,000 polygons, the in-game performance is something like, a few thousand polygons/sec.

Sega's SVP chip was probably comparible also. a few thousand polygons/sec in Genesis Virtua Racing.

 

[Shompola]

I believe the SFX games looked better than its counterparts on Mega Drive, but they sure as hell were slower aswell.

 

[snapty00]

You know, if you compare Star Fox to Star Fox 2, Star Fox 2 looks a whole lot better. It actually has more textures and even a few effects going on. The part where you pick your ship in Star Fox 2 looks amazing with the television-scrambling effect.

I'm guessing the original Super FX chip could only display around 10,000 theoretical polygons, though. If that's true, and a game could only realistically get half of that performance, and assuming the game ran at 15 frames per second, that would only be about 333 polygons on-screen at a time. I guess that sounds about right for Star Fox, though.

 

[FortNinety]

From what I could tell, the FX chip could produce more polygons than the SVP chip, but the Virtua Racing had a better frame rate than Star Fox.