The Elsa Gladiac 64MB DDR GeForce 2 GTS
You Do Play Games, Right?

By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta
9/14/00

 

H.H. Test System
Speedy...

InWin Full Tower ATX Case w/ 300W PS, Pentium III 933EB, Tyan S1854 (Via 133A) Motherboard and Elsa Gladiac 64MB DDR AGP Card, 256MB of PC133 True CAS2 SDRAM from Mushkin, IBM 22Gig 7200 RPM ATA66 Hard Drive, Plextor UltraPlex 40max CDROM, Win 98SE, DirectX 7.0a, nVidia reference drivers (Detonator 3)

Benchmarks With The Gladiac 64
Turnin' and Burin'
As we mentioned earlier, we had some nice success when overclocking this card.  The Gladiac ships with a default core clock speed of 200MHz and a default memory speed of 166MHz (333MHz DDR).  With no special cooling modification other than a well-ventilated case, we were able to clock the Gladiac to 235MHz core and 405MHz memory!  That’s approaching Ultra territory for hundreds less!

MadOnion's Video 2000

 

Nothing out of the ordinary with Video 2000, the Gladiac scores on par with other GeForce 2's

We also ran another benchmark from MadOnion, the ever popular 3DMark 2000...

3D Mark 2000 1.1

Very nice indeed!  Notice that with the Detonator 3 drivers, the performance drop-off when running in 32-bit mode is much smaller.

To test the OpenGL performance we ran Quake 3's Demo001 and the timedemo built-in to MDK2.  First we'll take a look at what the Gladiac 64 can do with MDK2...

MDK 2

And for some Overclocked Luvin'...

 

More to go....

More Over-clocking, FSAA and The Rating