NVIDIA Riva TNT2

by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 27, 1999 2:32 PM EST

The Test

AnandTech received a pre-release version of Leadtek's WinFast 3D S320 II Riva TNT2 (16MB) card. The card was spec'd to run at 150MHz core and 170MHz memory. AnandTech's Slot-1/Socket-370 test configuration was as follows:

  • Intel Pentium III 500, Intel Pentium II 400, Intel Pentium II 266, Intel Celeron 333, Intel Celeron 266 (0KB L2) on an ABIT BX6 Revision 2.0 or an ABIT ZM6 for the Socket-370 Celeron 333 tests.
  • 64MB of Memman/Mushkin SEC Original SDRAM was used in each test system
  • Western Digital 5.1GB Ultra ATA/33 HDD
  • Microsoft Windows 98

The benchmark software used was as follows:

  • id Software's Quake 2 Version 3.20 using demo1.dm2 and 3Finger's crusher.dm2
  • Monolith's Shogo using 3Finger's RevDemo
  • Interplay's Descent3 Demo2 using AnandTech's Descent3 Torture Demo
  • Ziff Davis' Winbench 99 at 1600 x 1200 x 32-bit color for 2D performance tests

Each benchmark was run a total of three times and the average frame rates taken. Vsync was disabled.

Driver Issues Quake 2 Performance - demo1.dm2 - P3/500
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