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| HotHardware's
Test System |
| Intel
440BX based - AGP need not apply |
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LiteOn
Mid Tower ATX Case w/ 300W PS, Pentium III
866EB, Abit
BX133-RAID i440BX Motherboard, 128MB of PC133
True CAS2 SDRAM from Corsair (thanks Outside
Loop), IBM 15Gig 7200 RPM ATA100 Hard Drive
(thanks again Outside
Loop), Voodoo5 5500 PCI Graphics Card
, Kenwood 72X CDROM,
Win 98SE,
DirectX 7.0a
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| Benchmarks
with the Voodoo5 5500 PCI |
| Who
needs AGP? Well, almost... |
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These
days, good 3D Benchmarks for Direct 3D, are few
and far between. However, the folks at MadOnion
have just about all you could ever want in this
department with their oh-so good 3DMark 2000
Benchmark.
3D
Mark 2000 Scores
Although
not earth shattering, these are respectable
numbers. In this test the Pentium III is the
optimization choice for the T&L side of the
test, since the V5 doesn't have on board
T&L. Hardware T&L supported cards
like the GeForce2 GTS (an AGP card mind you) skew
the benchmark, depending on your
perspective. There aren't many games that
take advantage of it yet but 3D Mark 2000 shows a
considerable performance advantage to those cards
that support it.
Unreal
Tournament Time Demo Scores
On the
other hand, there is nothing on the market today
that runs Unreal Tournament like a 3dfx
card. Here we see the Voodoo5 5500 PCI beats
the AGP
driven GeForce 2 GTS hands down in both 16 and
32 bit color.
Quake
3 Arena Time DemoFull Scene Anti-Aliasing Scores
This
test run shows the V5 5500 PCI running at default
core speed with 2X and 4X FSAA on a Pentium
3-866. For us, the optimal resolution and AA
setting is 800X600X32 with 2X FSAA.
Regardless, these scores are darn close to the V5
5500 AGP, which is the fastest card on the market
today with respect to FSAA. If only the
frame rates were a little higher in 4X FSAA.
800X600X32 with 4X FSAA image quality, is to die
for.
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