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Hi guys,
I've been doing a bit of benchmarking with various graphics cards for a local computer shop where I help out... here's my results:
I tested on two PCs I happened have here handy and represent a PC that a customer may be upgrading from and a PC that a customer may want to upgrade to.
Latest publicly available grpahics drivers used for each card from the respective manufacturer. Both machines ran Windows Me. Quake 3 tests had NO service packs - simply the version that's on the CD.
Athlon 1.1Ghz - Asus A7V, Athlon Tbird 1Ghz clocked to 11x100Mhz, 256Mb RAM (At 133Mhz, CAS-3), WD 17Gb UDMA 66 drive Via 4-in-1 4.28 used, Directx8 installed.
PII-450 - Dell Dimension XPS-T450 (Well, actually a T500 (P3), but with a PII-450 CPU), 128Mb RAM, Seagate 4.3Gb UDMA 33 drive, Directx8 installed.
The results are NOT meant to be scientific - just a guide for our customers who haven't a clue and can then see what they've got and what they can upgrade.
EDIT: Oh yeah - here's a bit more info on the cards:
These results are subjective...
2D Image Quality: (Out of 10 - higher the better)
SiS 6326 - (When it got into windows) 5/10
Mill G200 - 8/10
S3 Savage 4 - 3/10
Mill G450 - 10/10
Ati Rage 128 - 6/10
Mill G400 - 9.5/10
S3 Savage2000 - 7/10
Geforce 2 MX - 6/10
Geforce 2 GTS - 7/10
Memory Configs:
SiS 6326 - 4 & 8Mb AGP tested
Mill G200 - 8Mb SD-RAM
S3 Savage 4 - 16Mb SD-RAM
Mill G450 - 32MB DDR-RAM
Ati Rage 128 - 16Mb SD-RAM (?)
Mill G400 - 32Mb SG-RAM
S3 Savage2000 - 64Mb SD-RAM
Geforce 2 MX - 32MB SD-RAM
Geforce 2 GTS - 32MB DDR-RAM
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Cheers,
Steve
"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"
[This message has been edited by SteveC (edited 12 March 2001).]
I've been doing a bit of benchmarking with various graphics cards for a local computer shop where I help out... here's my results:
I tested on two PCs I happened have here handy and represent a PC that a customer may be upgrading from and a PC that a customer may want to upgrade to.
Latest publicly available grpahics drivers used for each card from the respective manufacturer. Both machines ran Windows Me. Quake 3 tests had NO service packs - simply the version that's on the CD.
Athlon 1.1Ghz - Asus A7V, Athlon Tbird 1Ghz clocked to 11x100Mhz, 256Mb RAM (At 133Mhz, CAS-3), WD 17Gb UDMA 66 drive Via 4-in-1 4.28 used, Directx8 installed.
PII-450 - Dell Dimension XPS-T450 (Well, actually a T500 (P3), but with a PII-450 CPU), 128Mb RAM, Seagate 4.3Gb UDMA 33 drive, Directx8 installed.
The results are NOT meant to be scientific - just a guide for our customers who haven't a clue and can then see what they've got and what they can upgrade.
EDIT: Oh yeah - here's a bit more info on the cards:
These results are subjective...
2D Image Quality: (Out of 10 - higher the better)
SiS 6326 - (When it got into windows) 5/10
Mill G200 - 8/10
S3 Savage 4 - 3/10
Mill G450 - 10/10
Ati Rage 128 - 6/10
Mill G400 - 9.5/10
S3 Savage2000 - 7/10
Geforce 2 MX - 6/10
Geforce 2 GTS - 7/10
Memory Configs:
SiS 6326 - 4 & 8Mb AGP tested
Mill G200 - 8Mb SD-RAM
S3 Savage 4 - 16Mb SD-RAM
Mill G450 - 32MB DDR-RAM
Ati Rage 128 - 16Mb SD-RAM (?)
Mill G400 - 32Mb SG-RAM
S3 Savage2000 - 64Mb SD-RAM
Geforce 2 MX - 32MB SD-RAM
Geforce 2 GTS - 32MB DDR-RAM
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Cheers,
Steve
"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"
[This message has been edited by SteveC (edited 12 March 2001).]
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