NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 14, 2000 9:01 AM EST

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The Test

For the testing, we used the same systems as were used for the GeForce 2 GTS review, with updated drivers. In the case of the Radeon, we tested with the shipping drivers with V-sync disabled as well as "Convert 32-bit textures to 16-bit" turned off. We only tested on one platform because we are comparing the performance of the drivers not the video cards themselves.

We left out the 800 x 600 scores since they didn't really show anything with these cards other than a small drop in performance when compared to 640 x 480 frame rates.

Windows 98 SE Test System
Hardware
CPU(s)	Intel Pentium III 550E	AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) 1GHz
Motherboard(s)	AOpen AX6BCPro Gold	ABIT KT7-RAID
Memory	128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM (Micron -7E Chips)
Hard Drive	IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66

CDROM	Phillips 48X
Video Card(s)	3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64MB 3dfx Voodoo5 4500 AGP 32MB ATI Radeon 64MB DDR ATI Rage Fury MAXX 64MB Matrox Millennium G400MAX 32MB NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 32MB SDR (default clock 175/166) NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR (default clock - 200/166 DDR) NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB DDR (default clock - 120/150 DDR) NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB SDR (default clock - 120/166) NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Ultra 32MB (default clock - 150/183) S3 Diamond Viper II 32MB
Ethernet	Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter
Software
Operating System	Windows 98 SE
Video Drivers	3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64MB - final drivers v1.00.01 3dfx Voodoo5 4500 AGP 32MB - final drivers v1.00.01 ATI Rage Fury MAXX 64MB - A6.40CD06 ATI Radeon 64MB DDR - 4.12_3050 Matrox Millennium G400MAX 32MB - 6.00.010 Beta NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 32MB SDR - Detonator3 6.17 NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS 32MB DDR - Detonator3 6.17 NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB DDR - Detonator3 6.17 NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB SDR - Detonator3 6.17 NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Ultra 32MB - Detonator3 6.17 S3 Diamond Viper II 32MB - 4.12.01.9006-9.51.01
Benchmarking Applications
Gaming	GT Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.04 AnandTech.dem idSoftware Quake III Arena demo001.dm3