Index
Limitations to the GeForce
Result of GeForce Limitations
DDR vs. SDR
Performance of Quaver on DDR/SDR
Texture Swapping: Hidden Evil
The Need for 64 MB
The Card
The Test
Pentium III 750E - Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
Pentium III 750E - Quake III Arena Quaver.dm3
Athlon 750 - Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
Athlon 750 - Quake III Arena Quaver.dm3
Pentium III 550E - Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
Pentium III 550E - Quake III Arena Quaver.dm3
Athlon 550 - Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
Athlon 550 - Quake III Arena Quaver.dm3
Pentium III 750E - Unreal Tournament
Athlon 750 - Unreal Tournament
Pentium III 550E - Unreal Tournament
Athlon 550 - Unreal Tournament
Drivers: 5.13 vs. 3.76
Conclusion
The Test
Windows
98 SE Test System
Hardware
CPU(s)
Intel
Pentium III 550E
Intel Pentium
III 750E
AMD Athlon 550
AMD Athlon 750
Motherboard(s)
ABIT
BF6
Tyan
Trinity K7 S2380 KX133 Slot-A ATX
Memory
128MB
PC133 Crucial Technology SDRAM
Hard
Drive
Quantum
Fireball CR 8.4 GB UDMA 33
CDROM
Acer
24x
Video
Card(s)
Leadtek
WinFast GeForce 256 DDR Revision B
ASUS
Siluro GF256 SDR GeForce
SUMA
Platinum GeForce 64MB DDR
ATI
Rage Fury MAXX
Software
Operating System
Windows 98 SE
Video
Drivers
NVIDIA
GeForce 256 - Detonator 3.76
VIA 4-in-1 Service Pack version 4.20
Benchmarking Applications
Gaming
GT
Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.04 UTbench.dem
idSoftware Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
idSoftware Quake III Arena Quaver.dm3
The Card
Pentium III 750E - Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
Index
Limitations to the GeForce
Result of GeForce Limitations
DDR vs. SDR
Performance of Quaver on DDR/SDR
Texture Swapping: Hidden Evil
The Need for 64 MB
The Card
The Test
Pentium III 750E - Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
Pentium III 750E - Quake III Arena Quaver.dm3
Athlon 750 - Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
Athlon 750 - Quake III Arena Quaver.dm3
Pentium III 550E - Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
Pentium III 550E - Quake III Arena Quaver.dm3
Athlon 550 - Quake III Arena demo001.dm3
Athlon 550 - Quake III Arena Quaver.dm3
Pentium III 750E - Unreal Tournament
Athlon 750 - Unreal Tournament
Pentium III 550E - Unreal Tournament
Athlon 550 - Unreal Tournament
Drivers: 5.13 vs. 3.76
Conclusion
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Dr AB - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
Woww what an amazing article! There were a lot of things that I didnt even knew glad that I read it. Its fascinating how things have progressed in 20 years.