The predecessor of the famous and fast ET4000. Unfortunately the ET3000 isn't much of a performer compared to the ET4000 but given the timeframe no-one can blame Tseng for this. The ET3000 falls behind on the PVGA1A but note that the ET3000 is quite a bit older. VGA cards where introduced in 1987 and this particular Tseng ET3000 is from 1988. In that time VGA was very high-end and most PC's were stuck with EGA, CGA or even Hercules.

Interesting to see is that the ET3000 from 1988 combined with a blazing fast (relatively) Pentium 100 just keeps ahead of a 1994 Vesa Local Bus system with a DX2/66. This case really shows that a fast processor is needed as well to obtain fast graphics. > Read more