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Performance
Earlier in this review we told you that the MX is a good performer, well kno wing you you probably want some evidence of that. Therefore we did some tests
and took some benchmarks which are made with Dagoth Moor, 3D Mark 2000 (of
course!) and Quake III Arena.
Dagoth Moor
First up, we did some benchmarks with Dagoth moor. I used my new testbed, an
Athlon Thunderbird system running at 700 MHz. I chose for this
platform since many of you asked us to use an Athlon system with the
GeForce for a change. Hey we listen to you guys !
Test System
Gigabyte 7ZX KT133 Mainboard
AMD 700 MHz Athlon Thunderbird
128 MB CAS2 SDRAM (Corsair
memory)
Creative SB Live! Platinum
3COM 3C900B-TPO Ethernet Card
Windows 98 Second Edition
DirectX 7.0a
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS - Driver: Detonator 5.22
We took Dagoth Moor as a
benchmark since it's specially designed and developed for the GeForce's Hardware
T&L chipset.
The results will resemble a perfectly good
comparison between the power of the GeForce2 MX and it's young brother the
GeForce2 GTS.
| Dagoth
Moor |
640x480 |
800x600 |
1024x768 |
1280x960 |
1600x1200 |
| GeForce2
MX |
57.8 |
45.8 |
34.6 |
24.7 |
15.9 |
| GeForce2
GTS |
76.9 |
67.8 |
54 |
37.8 |
26.3 |
When you look closely at the graph you'll
notice immediately that the MX is a good performer in the low- and midrange
section. The T&L engine is quite fast but is limited in resolution higher
than 1024x768. Still these are very respectable results here. To do almost
35 Frames per Second in Dagoth Moor is excellent.
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