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Posted: December 1, 2000 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Benchmark System AMD “Thunderbird” Athlon 1000MHz (Socket A) Asus A7V rev. 1.01, BIOS 1002 512MB Micron PC133 SDRAM Cas2 Hercules 3D Prophet 2 Ultra with official Detonator 3 (6.35) Elsa Gladiac Ultra with official Detonator 3 (6.35) IBM GXP75 Ultra100 HD Windows 98 SE 3Dmark2000 800x600 @ 16/32bpps 1024x768 @ 16/32bpps 1280x1024 @ 16/32bpps Quake 3 Arena with latest Point Release Demo 1 & 2: Normal and High Quality 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 Unreal Tournament 4.32 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 Let’s see some marks! Benchmarks 3DMark2000  The 3D Prophet 2 Ultra edges past the Gladiac Ultra in every resolution. The gap gets smaller and smaller as the resolution gets higher. This is a limitation of fill rate. Basically both cards are very much equal. It’s good to see Hercules do well though, even though there isn’t much difference between the two cards -- but you expect this because both are based on the same reference design. Let’s take a look at 32-bit scores.  These are really nice scores, but then again what do you expect from the fastest cards on the market? The Prophet edges past the Gladiac by a small margin again. Maybe it’s because Hercules’ board is blue and not green! |
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