Beta Test: MSI StarForce 822 GeForce 3 (2/7)

Quake3 Arena v1.17 (OpenGL)

All 16Bit benchmarks were made with the Q3 quality setting "Normal". The 32Bit settings are "High Quality" with max. texture detail (Donīt wonder about the pic above... itīs from the Q3 map I created a year ago)

Demo001

The GeForce 3 falls behind GF2 Ultra in 16Bit color depth. In 32Bit a complete different situation: The GeForce 3 outperforms the Ultra in 1024x768 and above. GeForce 3 is about 17FPS or 30% faster in 1600x1200-32 and at least 22% in 1280x1024-32.

NV15demo

The NV15 Q3 map and timedemo was released together with GeForce 2 Utlra by NVIDIA last year and comes with a huge bunch of polygons. The GF2 Ultra seems to have slight (really slight) advantages here. Only high 32Bit resolutions shows GF3 on top. The CPU is not able to push the cards higher... Q3 is not very friendly to T&L capable cards...

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