NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 64MB

Pentium III 550E - Quake III Arena Quaver.dm3

Once again, we find that Quaver does not stress the cards to any great amount with the exception to the S3TC lacking Rage Fury MAXX. In 16-bit color mode, we note that performance is nearly equal across the board for the GeForce 2 GTS based cards. This time we find that the 64 MB GeForce 2 GTS is routinely a bit slower than the 32 MB GeForce 2 GTS, a product of the use of slower SDRAM on the 64 MB board. At 1600x1200x32, where performance begins to be separate between the two cards, the GeForce 2 GTS outfitted with 64 MB of RAM performs 6% faster.

In 32-bit color, performance begins to be in the advantage of the 64 MB GeForce 2 GTS when at 1280x1024 and above. Below this resolution, the 64 MB card performs a bit slower than the 32 MB card, once again due to the slower SDRAM chips used. When at 1280x1024, the 64 MB GeForce 2 GTS performs 7% faster, with this performance gain rising to 7.4% when at 1600x1200x32.