Just like my other driver performance threads: Matrox driver performance, Geforce256 driver performance, TNT2 driver performance and Rage128 driver performance.
I used a Voodoo3 3500TV and the same P3 test setup (P3 800EB, intel OR840 with 512MB 800MHz RDRAM and an SBlive card).
I also did some testing to see if there was any difference in miniGL performance between drivers:
The 99 game results:
Interesting, I thought that older V3 driver revisions were significantly faster than newer ones, but judging by the results, both old and new drivers perform basically the same 😕
Could you rerun tests for Q2, HL or Unreal with a slower CPU, like 333/400MHz Celeron if possible? I'd really like to see how well driver performance would scale then.
I can give it a go on my Celeron 300A and Aopen AX6BC. I'm also going to do some socket 7 testing with the Voodoo3, both on VIA and ALi.
Very interesting! What about adding some third party drivers like amigamerlin's?
Are you going to do a V5 driver performance topic as well?
wrote:Very interesting! What about adding some third party drivers like amigamerlin's?
Yeah, I can do that. I don't really have any experience with the third party drivers, which ones do you think I should test?
wrote:Are you going to do a V5 driver performance topic as well?
At some point I would like to, I still have a few other cards I want to test also.
Some results with the Celeron 300a:
wrote:wrote:Very interesting! What about adding some third party drivers like amigamerlin's?
Yeah, I can do that. I don't really have any experience with the third party drivers, which ones do you think I should test?
Maybe an amigamerlin vs 3dfx reference drivers comparison (both possible on 98 or 2k) with a V5?
wrote:At some point I would like to, I still have a few other cards I want to test also.
Cool!
99 games with the Celeron 300a:
