My two Benchmark are with 256 Colors. ET4000 by 1024x768 and MACH32 with 1280x1024 ... https://s22.postimg.cc/l6xgaqq75/IMAG0674.jpg This is with your Nova board, Mach32, and the drivers you say to use in the paper you put with it. No hard drive installed, only those files in floppy drive auto fold...

Just found someone selling VME ISA adapters for graphics cards. What I've noticed is with this sort of setup there seems to be 3 choices for card, either an ET4000, or ATI Mach32 or Mach64.

I can get either the ET4000 or the Mach32 easily enough. But which one works better?

^ yep. PC Card slot only made sense for ethernet or squirrel scsi on 1200. though I briefly had a 600 with PC Card fastram and it did me no harm (accidentally wiring up the power connector in mirror image did though). A proper trapdoor fastram card releases an incredible amount of power. Really Comm...

What's the read MB/s of A1200 fast ram? So we know where we stand between both machines with a realistic config, 4MB each.

yep, figures are not so impressive, but when we compare Falcon with similar solutions from the same era, it doesn't look so bad: Read LW (MB/s) Write LW (MB/s) Amiga 1200, 020/14, Chipram 4.500 6.900 Falcon 030/16, ST-ram 5.345 6.488 TT 030 32MHz, ST-ram 7.867 7.867 TT 030 32MHz, Fastram 12.615 15....

I always imagined the falcon was a mess, but here we are...