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1:05 PM - April 25, 2001 by
Uwe Scheffel
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: a, speedy, tiler
Topics: Buyer's Guides
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Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: a, speedy, tiler
Topics: Buyer's Guides
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Table of Contents:
Test Configuration
All benchmarks were determined on an Athlon 1.2 GHz platform. Additionally, we used a Pentium 4 system with a frequency of 1.5 GHz.
| Athlon System | |
|---|---|
| CPU: | AMD Athlon 1.20 GHz, 133 MHz FSB DDR |
| Motherboard: | ASUS A7M266 (AMD760 chipset) Bios: 1004 C Beta |
| Memory: | Micron 2 x 128 MB DDR-SDRAM, PC2100, CL2.5 |
| Hard drive: | Seagate ST313021, 12 GB, 5400 U/min |
| Chipset driver: | VIA 4in1, V4.29a Final |
| Pentium 4 System | |
| CPU: | Intel Pentium 4 1,5 GHz, 100 MHz FSB (Quad-pumped) |
| Motherboard: | ASUS P4T (i850 chipset) Bios: 1001 |
| Memory: | Samsung 2 x 128 MB RDRAM PC800 |
| Hard drive: | Seagate ST313021, 12 GB, 5400 U/min |
| Chipset driver: | Intel IDE driver V6.1 Build 6.10.003 and Intel chipset driver V2.80.008 |
| Software | |
| OS: | Windows 98SE 4.10 Build 2222A |
| DirectX: | 8.0a (4.08.00.0400), German |
| Graphics Cards | |
| Kyro II (Hercules 3D Prophet 4500)
175 MHz chip clock rate, 175 MHz memory clock rate (SDR) 64 MB SDRAM memory (5 ns) |
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| GeForce2 MX (ASUS AGP-V7100)
175 MHz chip clock rate, 166 MHz memory clock rate (SDR) 32 MB SDRAM memory (128 bit bus) |
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| GeForce2 GTS (ASUS V7700 Pure)
200 MHz chip clock rate, 166 MHz memory clock rate (DDR) 32 MB DDR SGRAM memory (128 bit bus) |
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| ATI RADEON
166 MHz chip clock rate, 166 MHz memory clock rate (DDR) 32 MB DDR SGRAM memory (128 bit bus) |
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| Graphics Card Drivers | |
| Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 64 MB: Hercules Beta v7.56 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce2 MX: NVIDIA reference driver v6.50 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS: NVIDIA reference driver v6.50 | |
| ATI RADEON: v 4.13.7093 | |
| Benchmarks | |
| Quake3 Arena | OpenGL-API with HW transformation support
Retail version V1.16 command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0 Graphics detail set to 'Normal' and "High" Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1' Demo Demo001 |
| Aquamark | DirectX-8-API with T&L and DX8 features
V1.2 (Aquanox) FSA: none Texture: 24 MB Pixelshader: no |
| MDK2 | OpenGL-API with hardware-based T&L
Mipmap trilinear filtering Texture quality high Disable 3D sound acceleration |
| Evolva (Bump) | DirectX-7-API with T&L support
V1.2. Build 944 Dot Bump Mapping |
| 3DMark2000 | Synthetic DirectX-7 benchmark
V1.1 Build 340 |
| MBTR | DirectX-7-API without T&L
Mercedes Benz Truck Racing V1.09 Beta |
- Previous page Drivers, Continued
- Next page Benchmarks At 16 Bit Color