Once again, UnrealTournament proves to appreciate no card other than the Voodoo5. The Radeon seems to love the 1GHz Thunderbird and jumps up right behind the Voodoo5 and even surpasses it in 32-bit color. The GeForce2 Ultra is clearly behind the Radeon. We managed to talk to Epic about this and according to them, NVIDIA's drivers don't handle textures as well as ATI's and 3dfx's, and since UT is a very texture intensive game this could explain why all the NVIDIA cards are behind by such a large amount.
The standings remain the same as the resolution goes up.
At 1600 x 1200 the Ultra finally comes through with a very small advantage because of its incredible memory bandwidth and fill rate.
OpenGL Performance - Quake III Arena - Pentium III 550E
Direct3D Performance - UnrealTournament - Pentium III 550E
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