GPU Shootout with Unreal Tournament 2003 Part II: CPU Scaling

NVIDIA’s GeForce3 Line

The following GPUs are featured in the charts below:

GeForce3 Ti 500
GeForce3 Ti 200
GeForce3

As you’d expect, with relatively slow CPUs the three GeForce3 cards perform very close to one another but the gap grows as clock speed increases.  By the time you pass the 1.2GHz mark the GPUs get as far apart from one another as they’re going to get. 

At the Medium Detail settings the CPU scaling curves are all much steeper thanks to decreased dependencies on the GPU’s ability to perform.  Running at Medium Detail levels doesn’t make sense for GeForce3 owners but as you’ll see later on, it can definitely help the slower cards.