ATI Radeon 32MB SDR

Starting out, we see the Radeon SDR take a back seat to the GeForce2 MX, it's closest competitor. The difference in performance between the two is just under 5% and can be attributed to T&L and driver superiority on NVIDIA's part.

The picture immediately begins to change once the resolution goes up. At 1024 x 768 x 32 the GeForce2 MX loses the 5% lead we described at 640 x 480 x 32 and gives way to the Radeon SDR's more efficient usage of memory bandwidth as well as higher fill rate.

Also notice that there is a third competitor here, the Voodoo4 4500, however it is easily outperformed by both the Radeon SDR and the GeForce2 MX.

As you push the resolution even higher, the GeForce2 MX falls a full 24% slower than the Radeon SDR as it no longer has the fill rate nor the memory bandwidth to keep up with the Radeon SDR. The Radeon SDR performs much more like the GeForce DDR at this high of a resolution and is even very slightly above the performance of a Voodoo5 5500.