I’m retiring the Quake time demo from the repertoire of testing tools. With the newer GeForce3 cards, the old Quake engine is not powerful enough to full stressing out the GPU. So there… farewell Quake…
Replacing Quake is Max Payne and Serious Sam; the new Payne engine seriously puts a load on even the newest video cards, while Serious Sam peaks the OpenGL functions.
Windows 98SE
3Dmarks 2001
16-bit color
32-bit color
Here we see that the GeForce3 cards are totally dominating the scene, benchmarking at about ~4000 even at 1600x1200 32bit. The TORNADO comes in second place after the OCZ Gladiator GeForce3, which was expected given that the OCZ Gladiator is overclocked. The ATI Radeon VE is last and couldn’t achieve anything higher than 1000 at 1600x1200 32bit.
Max Payne 1.02 (w/ benchmark mod from SirElvis & Leonidas)
Inno3D GeForce 3
Avg FPS
.
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
42.85 36.12 28.37
PCGH no.1 Savegame
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
63.54 54.01 46.52
PCGH no.2 Savegame
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
56.42 39.59 30.60
3D Concepts Savegame
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
54.89 42.22 36.17
AnandTech Savegame
OCZ GeForce 3
Avg FPS
.
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
45.64 37.26 31.50
PCGH no.1 Savegame
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
63.25 57.54 48.31
PCGH no.2 Savegame
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
65.41 44.48 31.77
3D Concepts Savegame
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
63.86 46.50 36.80
AnandTech Savegame
Visiontek GeForce2 Ultra
Avg FPS
.
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
30.90 24.51 17.20
PCGH no.1 Savegame
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
49.13 38.05 28.19
PCGH no.2 Savegame
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
36.86 18.62 18.56
3D Concepts Savegame
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
47.31 30.63 22.89
AnandTech Savegame
Radeon VE
Avg FPS
.
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
14.83 13.49 11.80
PCGH no.1 Savegame
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
31.87 21.42 11.18
PCGH no.2 Savegame
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
17.01 13.19 10.96
3D Concepts Savegame
1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
17.87 12.84 11.32
AnandTech Savegame
The TORNADO and the OCZ look pretty much the same, although the OCZ is just a little bit ahead. Meanwhile, both GeForce3 cards obliterate the other older cards.