Jedi Knight 2

We've known Jedi Knight 2 to be a very CPU bound benchmark, which makes it the perfect measure of the Parhelia's current driver performance since it should not be GPU limited at all.

Jedi Knight 2
'demo jk2ffa' @ 1024x768
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600

NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400

NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200

ATI Radeon 8500

ATI Radeon 8500LE

Matrox Parhelia

125.0

125.0

125.0

123.5

123.2

90.5

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0
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25
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50
|
75
|
100
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125
|
150

At first glance it would seem that it is poor drivers that are holding back the Parhelia, but if you realize that it has a GPU clock that's around 27% slower than the Ti 4600 then you realize that drivers aren't all that are at fault here. A combination of the lower GPU clock and drivers that aren't yet mature place Parhelia at the bottom of this food chain.

Jedi Knight 2
'demo jk2ffa' @ 1280x1024
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600

NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400

NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200

ATI Radeon 8500

ATI Radeon 8500LE

Matrox Parhelia

124.4

123.9

123.5

119.9

116.9

74.9

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0
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25
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50
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75
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100
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124
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149

While the rest of the cards didn't drop in performance by any appreciable percentage at 1280x1024, the Parhelia took a 17% dip.

Jedi Knight 2
'demo jk2ffa' @ 1600x1200
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600

NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400

NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200

ATI Radeon 8500

ATI Radeon 8500LE

Matrox Parhelia

113.0

105.8

101.7

100.1

93.2

65.9

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0
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23
|
45
|
68
|
90
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113
|
136

And we see more of the same at 1600x1200.

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