NVIDIA vs. 3Dfx - TNT vs. the Voodoos

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Benchmarking Setup

The tests were ran with 3 different systems, a Pentium II 400, a Celeron 300 A and a K6-2 300.

All systems were using:

  • Hard Drive: IBM DGVS 09U, ultra wide SCSI
  • SCSI adapter: Adaptec 2940 UW
  • Memory: 128 MB PC100 SDRAM
  • Operating System: Windows 98
  • Refresh Rates: 85 Hz for all cards in all resolutions except 1152x864 and 1600x1200 75 Hz
  • Quake 2 ver. 3.19
  • Unreal original release version, plus D3D patch for TNT, ver. 209 for Banshee

Motherboards:

  • Asus P2B for both Slot1 CPUs
  • Asus P5A for AMD CPU

Drivers:

  • NVIDIA RIVA TNT: 4.10.01.0036, Chip clock 90 MHz, Memory Clock 112.5 MHz
  • 3Dfx Voodoo2: 4.10.01.0180-2.17
  • 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee: 4.10.01.0090-1.00
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  • Pure nostalgia. Tom's Hardware is awesome for keeping 14 year old articles around, I read the whole thing and it brought back memories.
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  • xkm1948
    Ahh now this brings back some old memories.
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