Benchmarks

I also wanted to use 3DMark99 for benchmarks first but I canceled it. NVIDIA and MadOnion told me that there are problems with 3DMark99 MAX and DirectX 7. The results were too low. So weīll have to wait for 3DMark2000 here...

Pentium III Coppermine 700MHz

I used an Intel Coppermine 700MHz at 100Mhz FSB clock to push the cards to their limits. An ASUS P3B-F mainboard with 128MB 7ns PC-100 RAM was used as for the tests. I used another mainboard for these tests so you canīt compare these results with the older GeForce results on RIVA Station directly - but the differences are very low at all.

The Power Supply in the testsystem was a "Power Man" with 235V. The manufacturer speaks of 14,0A at 3,3V and 22,0A at 5V. All cards ran pretty stable with this configuration. I couldīnt notice any voltage problems, even with the fast Coppermine.

Some words about the benchmarks. Some of you may wonder that I still use rather old games like GLQuake and Incoming for benchmark tests. But these games have a small CPU load. You can see very good in these benchmarks how fast a card really is. To show the other case Iīve included Drakan and Quake3 as CPU loaded benchmarks. So you read it as a max/min configuration.

GLQuake 1 Demo1

The performance of all cards is almost the same. The ASUS V6600 drivers are based on the older v3.48 NVIDIA drivers. It seems that these drivers are a bit faster in Quake1 at 1280x1024 than v3.53 used by the other two cards.

Quake3 v1.09 Demo1

Almost same values here.

Quake3 v1.09 Demo2

The same situation as Demo1. The overall results are pretty high. But you can see a falldown at high 32Bit resolutions. The S D/G RAM is not fast enough here.

Incoming

The V6600 is loosing a bit here. I think a reason of the v3.48 drivers again.

Drakan

I used maximum detail settings for this benchmark runs. Only very small differences in the results here.

So, letīs go to the Pentium III 500 Benchmarks.

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