S3 Savage4

AnandTech received a pre-release version of Gainward's Cardexpert SG4 and the Diamond Multimedia Stealth III S540 Savage4 based products. Both cards featured 32MB of on-board SDRAM. While the Cardexpert SG4 operated at the base setting of 125MHz core and 125MHz memory clock, the Stealth III's default operation was at 125MHz core and 143MHz memory (Savage4 Pro). 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 (results will be featured in an upcoming 3D accelerator comparison)
• 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. All cards were run in 16-bit mode unless otherwise indicated.