ATI vs NVIDIA: Driver performance under Win98 & Win2K

Synetic/THQ's Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing
http://www.thq.com/

The final game we used was THQ's Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing.  As the name implies this is a racing simulator with Mercedes-Benz trucks.  The game makes use of the Direct3D API. 

We used the built-in benchmark to measure the frame rate, leaving all of the settings at the generic Direct3D adapter values other than the resolution and color depth.

ATI once again falls behind by a total of 21 fps or 39% while NVIDIA just nudges ahead as we move to Windows 2000.