Tseng Labs 'ET4000AX'
Tseng Labs ET4000AX (ISA)
Tseng Labs ET4000AX  (ISA)

Not specifically branded so I'll just put this card under the 'Tseng Labs' category.

The ET4000AX is a great performer and has good compatibility. > Read more

Cardex ET4000AX (ISA)
Cardex ET4000AX  (ISA)

A late Tseng Labs ET4000AX. The other cards I have are dated 1992 or 1993. By the time this card came out the Vesa Local Bus cards were already widely available and the first PCI-cards started to pop up as well. > Read more

Diamond SpeedSTAR 24 (ISA)
Diamond SpeedSTAR 24 (ISA)

A decent looking and feeling Tseng Labs ET4000AX-based graphics card. The card feels somewhat sturdier and is more compact compared to a lot of ET4000AX clones. Diamond did a good job designing this card!

FCC ID is FTUSPEEDD.

The Tseng Labs ET4000AX has a respectable status regarding ISA-based VGA cards. It's performance is unmatched by other ISA-cards. To see how far the Tseng Labs ET4000AX can go I installed the card into a S478 motherboard (which has one ISA slot!) together with a Pentium 4 2GHz 'Northwood'. A blazing fast CPU compared to the ISA-card from the early 90'ies ;).

SystemDoomQuakeSVGABenchSyschkVidspeed L
Pentium 4 2GHz with 8MB 845G IGP156.25 FPS227.4 FPSNo Support8545424165
Pentium 4 2GHz with Diamond SpeedSTAR2436.43 FPS78.9 FPS15.1524163825
Pentium 100 with Diamond SpeedSTAR2432.06 FPS22.50 FPS10.6423453788

Interesting is that the ET4000AX is already being stretched to it's limits by just a Pentium 100 running Doom. Quake, of course, favors a much faster CPU which is clearly visible in the results.

Amazingly enough the Doom score on the socket 478 system also scored 478 realtics (which translates to 156.25 FPS). > Read more

Tseng Labs ET4000AX (ISA)
Tseng Labs ET4000AX  (ISA)

I'm not sure what brand this card is, thus I've put it under the Tseng Labs flag. It doesn't give much information apart from a GCC ID 'ILLTS4HV'.

Basically this is a good performing ET4000AX-based card from 1993. > Read more

Tseng Labs SuperVGA ET4000 (ISA)
Tseng Labs SuperVGA ET4000 (ISA)

Another general ET4000AX card. Not much information except that this card has a 'Super VGA' sticker on the chip.

Note that this card uses 80NS RAM chips. I have other ET4000AX-based cards that are equipped with 70NS RAM chips. One of them is the Diamond SpeedSTAR24 which is faster. > Read more

Tseng Labs ET4000AX (ISA)
Tseng Labs ET4000AX  (ISA)

This 16-bit ISA card was one of the fastest around in it's days. Due to a fast host-interface it could transfer data between the ISA bus and the video chip pretty fast.

I pulled this particular card from an AMD Am386DX/33 system and today it's sitting in my 20MHz 286. In combination with the 386DX it was able to run Doom at a fairly good frame-rate. I've seen many 486SX/25MHz configurations that ran twice as slow! Often a good balance between CPU and video chip is important when playing games, even today. > Read more