NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

With the slower Pentium III 550E, we see that the Radeon no longer holds its own at the top of the chart.  The GeForce2 GTS once again comes out on top of the Ultra because of its slightly faster DDR SGRAM. 

Once again, the GeForce2 Ultra picks up the pace and finds itself at the top of the performance charts. Because of the slower CPU, the performance difference between the GeForce2 Ultra and the regular GeForce2 GTS isn't too great as the CPU begins to become a limitation.

At 1280 x 1024 the GeForce2 Ultra redefines playable as 80 fps because that's what it's able to deliver. A full 41% faster than the GeForce2 GTS but also a full 50% more expensive.

Even on slower 100MHz FSB CPUs 1600 x 1200 is still very playable. Your friend down the street with a 1GHz Thunderbird and a GeForce2 GTS can't even reach your frame rate with the Ultra.