NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS

Name: NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS
Item: NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS
Author: Anand Lal Shimpi

by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 26, 2000 12:00 PM EST

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The Test

We chose three systems to measure the performance of these video cards. Remember that this is a comparison of the performance of video cards, not of CPUs or motherboard platforms.

For our High End testing platform, we picked an Athlon 750 running on a KX133 motherboard. The Athlon 750 is fast enough that it won’t be a limiting factor in the benchmarks and should also provide a good estimate of how all of the cards compared would perform on a 600 – 800MHz Athlon or Pentium III system (it will at least tell you which card would be faster).

For our Low End testing platform we picked a Pentium III 550E running on a BX motherboard. Although this isn’t a very “low-end” processor, it is fast enough to see a performance difference between video cards without the processor stepping in as a huge limitation. If we used something like a Celeron 466, the performance of virtually all the cards would be virtually identical at the lower resolutions because the CPU and FSB/memory buses are limiting factors. Once again, this is a test of graphics cards not of CPU/platform performance.

For our FSAA testing, we picked a 1GHz Pentium III running on an i820 motherboard with RDRAM. The reason we picked this platform (we are aware that it isn’t widely available) is because it eliminates virtually all bottlenecks that would be present and allows us to illustrate the biggest performance hit enabling FSAA would result in. Slower setups would have lesser performance hits because they have more bottlenecks.

Windows 98 SE Test System
Hardware
CPU(s)	Intel Pentium III 550E	Intel Pentium III 1.0EB	AMD Athlon 750
Motherboard(s)	ABIT BE6	AOpen AX6C	ASUS K7V-RM
Memory	128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM	128MB PC800 Samsung RDRAM	128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM
Hard Drive	IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66
CDROM	Phillips 48X
Video Card(s)	3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64MB 3dfx Voodoo5 4500 AGP 32MB 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP 16MB ATI Rage 128 Pro 32MB ATI Rage Fury MAXX 64MB Matrox Millennium G400MAX 32MB (would not run on Athlon platform) NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR (default clock - 200/166 DDR) NVIDIA GeForce 256 64MB DDR (default clock - 120/150 DDR) NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB DDR (default clock - 120/150 DDR) NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB SDR (default clock - 120/166) NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Ultra 32MB (default clock - 150/183) S3 Diamond Viper II 32MB
Ethernet	Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter
Software
Operating System	Windows 98 SE
Video Drivers	3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64MB - beta drivers v1.00.00 3dfx Voodoo5 4500 AGP 32MB - beta drivers v1.00.00 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP 16MB - beta drivers v1.04.07 ATI Rage 128 Pro 32MB - 6.31CD25 ATI Rage Fury MAXX 64MB - A6.32CD48 Matrox Millennium G400MAX 32MB - 5.52.015 NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR (default clock - 200/166 DDR) - Detonator 5.16 NVIDIA GeForce 256 64MB DDR (default clock - 120/150 DDR) - Detonator 5.16 NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB DDR (default clock - 120/150 DDR) - Detonator 5.16 NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB SDR (default clock - 120/166) - Detonator 5.16 NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Ultra 32MB (default clock - 150/183) - Detonator 5.16 S3 Diamond Viper II 32MB - 4.12.01.9002-9.10.30
Benchmarking Applications
Gaming	GT Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.04 AnandTech.dem idSoftware Quake III Arena demo001.dm3 idSoftware Quake III Arena quaver.dm3

NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS

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