The Benchmarks

As you can see in the figure below the GA-660 Plus performs better then any card available and tested. In our X Bootmark test, the card actually stunned us while blasting of more then a 185 Frames per second in 800x600x16bit. (V-Sync disabled of course).

  V2 SLI Banshee TNT (1) TNT (2) V3 3000 GA-660+
FINAL REALITY 38.9 37.9 39.5 44 46.9 47.5
X BOOTMARK 7.2 6.9 7.04 15.4 16.9 18.5
WIZMARK 53.9 51.6 43.1 59.2 61.6 59.2
3D MARK 99 26.9 19.3 19.4 30.49 33.03 33.6
3D MARK 99 MAX PRO 34.19   35.11
King pin  38.1 40.6

As you can see in the above figure the GA-660 Plus performs better then any card available and tested. Except from one benchmark, Wizmark. Voodoo3 is performes just a tiny bit  faster with this benchmark made by ... 3dfx. What I found very nice to see is that the GA-660 Plus performed better in OpenGL with King pin then Voodoo 3 did with their highly optimized Glide.

To visualize the above figure I have made a chart from it.

The next curve I'd like to share with you is the 16 vs. 32 bit performance curve. The GA-660 Plus has been tested by us in all most common resolutions ranging 800x600 up-to 1600x1200 pixels.

  32 Bit 16 Bit
800x600 3589 3614
1024x768 3588 3607
1280x1024 2739 3603
1600x1200 1827 3034

The test results where made with 3D Mark MAX professional edition. As you can see, with 32 Bit enabled you can play games up-to 1024x768 pixels without any loss in framerate and performance compared to 16 Bit gaming. At 1280x1024 the game still is extremely playable in 32 Bit. At 1600x1200 you can actually still play a game in 32Bit with the performance of a Banshee or TNT-1 based card in 16 Bit. Lovely!  BTW, look how extremely well and constant the card performs in 16Bit through all resolutions.

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