The Test

This first article is merely designed to set the stage for the rest to come, and thus we tested under a single configuration. The Athlon XP 2000+ was chosen to make the bottleneck as much the video card as possible; in future articles we'll look at the role the CPU and the rest of the system will play in this test as well.

We ran the benchmark at five resolutions with v-sync disabled: 640x480x32, 800x600x32, 1024x768x32, 1280x1024x32 and 1600x1200x32.

Windows XP Test System

Hardware

CPU(s)

AMD Athlon XP 2000+
Motherboard(s) ASUS A7V266-E (KT266A)
Memory

256MB DDR266 Crucial DDR SDRAM

Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar 30GB 75GXP 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

ATI Radeon 7500 64MB DDR
ATI Radeon 64MB DDR

NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 500 64MB DDR
NVIDIA GeForce3 64MB DDR
NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 64MB DDR
NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti 200 64MB DDR
NVIDIA GeForce2 Pro 64MB DDR
NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra 64MB DDR
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 64MB DDR
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200 32MB SDR
NVIDIA GeForce 64MB DDR
NVIDIA GeForce 256 32MB SDR

Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 64MB SDR

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows XP Professional

Video Drivers

ATI Radeon 8500 Drivers v6.13.10.3286
ATI Radeon 7500 Drivers v6.13.3276
NVIDIA Detonator 4 v23.11
Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 14.02 Drivers

Project: GPU Benchmark 640 x 480
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