Installation
was easy but I did run into some problems because the card was quite long.
After, moving a few cables out of the way the installation was smooth. The
other notable feature, the nView utility allows you to link 2 displays together.
Without further delays, let view the test system and get on with the
benchmarking.
Lets
quickly look at the test system:
AMD XP1800
1.53GHz
ECS K7S5A
SiS735 w/ Ultratimings
512MB Micron
PC2100 DDR
Maxtor 60GB
7200RPM
ATI 8500 7.67-020208X-2964C Drivers
Win98SE
The
COMPETITION:
ATI Radeon 8500
64MB DDR
ATIs Radeon 8500
is reliable high-end graphics card most notably used by graphic artists. One
note before we continue, there are currently 2 versions of the Radeon 8500
series. For this review, the Radeon 8500 with 64MB DDR and a faster DAC, not
the Radeon 8500LE was used.
TESTS
PERFORMED:
3Dmarks2001
Quake3 - Timedemo Demo001
Soldier of
Fortune 2 Double Helix
AquaMark
Included in the
games package of the MSI Geforce 4 Ti4600-VTD is Aqua Nox. This is a good
benchmark for 3D environments.
Now lets get on
with the testing
Directx 8.0 Benchmark
3Dmarks 2001
1)
MSI Geforce 4 Ti4600
W98SE C32 NoAA Z24 T32 DB D3D Hardware
2)
Win98SE C32 NoAA Z24
T32 DB D3D Hardware)
Here we see that
the GeForce4 has a huge lead over all the other boards, benchmarking difference
of at least 2000 points at 800x600 32bit and 1024x768.
It is interesting
to note that at 64MB most high-end boards rank around 7000. Similarly by
doubling the ram to 128MB, the Geforce 4 has almost doubled its score!
OpenGL Benchmark
Quake 3 Demo 001
|
MSI GeForce 4 Ti4600-VTD
|
FPS
|
|
|
1024x768
|
188.7
|
Demo001
|
|
800x600
|
197.3
|
|
|
RADEON 8500
|
FPS
|
|
|
1024x768
|
128.7
|
Demo001
|
|
800x600
|
132.1
|
|
The game openGL
benchmarks prove that the superiority of the GeForce4 completely destroying all
others in the group. The scores, which ring close to 200 frames, this is
something gamers will take into consideration when deciding whether to dish out
than extra $300.
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