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Posted: May 30, 2000 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Benchmarks Benchmark details: Quake 3 Arena with Point Release 1.17: Demo001 Quake 3 Arena 1.17 - 640x480 Fastest, Normal, High Quality Quake 3 Arena 1.17 - 800x600 Fastest, Normal, High Quality Quake 3 Arena 1.17 - 1024x768 Fastest, Normal, High Quality Quake 3 Arena 1.17 - 1280x1024 Fastest, Normal, High Quality 3DMark 2000 @ 32bit Color, 32bit texture 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024  We see that even on a Pentium III 500MHz, the Prophet really struts its stuff. Noting that the geometry T&L functions are done on the GPU, having a relatively midrange processor doesn't pull the performance down too much. Even on a lower PII or Celeron, the GeForce 2 GTS really shines -- thanks to onboard T&L, which takes a load off the processor, leaving it more available to do other tasks such as AI, physics, and sound. Now, we see that the 3D Prophet II is neck to neck with the Gladiac. However, the Gladiac still is a bit faster in the majority of the benchmarks. Perhaps this is due to driver difference, but then again both are based on the 5.16 Detonators. Decked out with all those heatsinks, we’re wondering why the Prophet lags behind the Gladiac (though not by much) in performance. Even the custom board design doesn’t seem to help. At the lower resolutions, the Gladiac outpaces the Prophet II by a few minor frames per second. At the high resolutions however, both begin to become fill rate limited and balance off.  As we see here, both cards can really scale with faster processors. But at higher resolutions, the memory becomes the main bottleneck. You'll want the 64MB versions of either card for good performance in very high resolutions. Here the Prophet beats the Gladiac by a few marginal points in the Pentium III 500MHz. With a faster processor the Gladiac seems to edge past the Prophet by a hair. We did try a little bit of Unreal Tournament on Pentium III side -- 1280x1024 (with max graphics settings) going at 59FPS average. The card does very well with medium to high end processors. Screenshots Here are few screenshots of Quake 3 running in the special NV15 level that NVIDIA had created to show off GeForce 2 GTS. Click on the thumbnails to open a larger image. The large images were captured at 1152x864.
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