Trident Blade 3D Preview

The synthetic benchmarks show clear superiority of the Blade 3D in comparison to the Intel i740, and in the case of the AGP implementation, the Blade 3D even has a more efficient implementation of the AGP 2X specification than the Matrox G200.  The 2D and Direct3D performance of the Matrox G200 still holds the clear lead over the much cheaper Blade 3D, however if you consider that the price of the G200 is about 3 to 4 times as much as the Blade 3D, for someone that isn't looking for the absolute best in performance the Blade 3D proves itself to be of an excellent overall value.