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Fujitsu tnt2 m64 16 mb (125/140 mhz or so) vs. msi geforce4 ti4200 8x 64 mb. Tested in an asrock am2nf3-vsta, amd athlon x2 5050e, 384 mb ddr2, ssd, audigy 2, windows 98 se. The tnt2 used the 30.82 dets, the gf4 the 31.40. Captured through vga with a visionrgb-pro2.
All in-game detail settings maxed. All games have footage at 640 x 480 16-bit, some at 1024 x 768 32-bit. Pause the video if there's too much information for you to take in otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNFDYFBNd-4
Colin McRae Rally /1998
Mobil 1 Rally Championship /1999
Soulbringer /2000
Rally Trophy /2001
Gothic 2: Night of the Raven /2003
The tnt2 has softer texturing and more aggressive mipmapping. Textures are excessively blurry in rally trophy, but the gf4 just about fails to mipmap at all in rally championship. Rather blurry than shimmery, so I prefer the tnt2 in most of these cases. The retro dithering looks nicer too. In rally championship, the gf4 is unstable. As did the geforce2 I tested earlier, the gf4 gets some possibly paletted texture colors wrong in soulbringer, and the text is corrupted. The latter might or might not be fixed by tweaking a texel offset setting, but this is what you get from the box. Soulbringer's menus are oddly sluggish on the gf4, and there's curious jerkiness in camera movement in-game. Colin mcrae rally is fps-limited, but the text and menus are to an extend corrupted on both cards; less so on the tnt2.
The tnt2 fully chokes in gothic 2 unless the texture detail slider is moved back a few steps. None of the games are well playable at 32-bit 1024 x 768 and max details on the tnt2, not surprising. The gf4 is always faster, usually by a lot. But 200+ fps isn't so useful over 50, and the tnt2 stays in the green at 640 x 480 16-bit in most of the games. I don't know why someone would play retro games in hd, but 640 x 480 also affords the more interesting selection of hardware here.
Rivatuner identifies the tnt2 as a vanta, nvidia's own control panel as a regular m64. Rivatuner gives the default core clock as 105 or so, nvidia's as 125. The core doesn't overclock by much, I think to about 135 at most, so whether it's a vanta is up for debate, I'm not removing the heatsink. The memory is stable up to 170, rated for 166.
