Part 2.

List of video cards:
Nvidia Riva TNT2 PRO 143/166 Mhz (128-bit, 32MB)
S3 Savage 4 Xtreme 166/166 Mhz (64-bit, 32MB) - overclocking.

Matrox G400 125/166 Mhz (128-bit, 32MB)
ATi Rage 128 PRO 125/143 Mhz (128-bit, 32MB)

3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 166/166 Mhz (128-bit, 16MB)
3Dfx Voodoo2 SLI 90/90 Mhz (192-bit, 8MB)

Geforce 256 (120/166 Mhz, 128-bit, 32 MB)
Geforce 2 PRO (200/400 Mhz, 128-bit, 64 MB)

Geforce 2 MX 400 (200/166 Mhz, 128-bit, 32 MB)
Geforce 3 Ti200 (175/400 Mhz, 128-bit, 64 MB)

Drivers Used:
Nvidia Riva TNT2 PRO 143/166 Mhz (128-bit, 32MB, ver. 2.08) - DirectX 6 compatible driver.
Nvidia Riva TNT2 PRO 143/166 Mhz (128-bit, 32MB, ver. 3.68) - DirectX 7 compatible driver.

S3 Savage 4 Xtreme 166/166 Mhz (64-bit, 32MB, ver. 8.10.33) - DirectX 6 compatible driver.
S3 Savage 4 Xtreme 166/166 Mhz (64-bit, 32MB, ver. 8.20.38) - DirectX 7 compatible driver.

Matrox G400 125/166 Mhz (128-bit, 32MB, ver. 5.30) - DirectX 6 compatible driver.
Matrox G400 125/166 Mhz (128-bit, 32Mb, ver. 6.83) - DirectX 7 compatible driver.

ATi Rage 128 PRO 125/143 Mhz (128-bit, 32MB, ver. 4.11.6220) - DirectX 6 compatible driver.
ATi Rage 128 PRO 125/143 Mhz (128-bit, 32MB, ver. 4.12.7016) - DirectX 7 compatible driver.

3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 166/166 Mhz (128-bit, 16MB, ver. 1.03.00) - DirectX 6 compatible driver.
3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 166/166 Mhz (128-bit, 16MB, ver. 1.07.00) - DirectX 7 compatible driver.

3Dfx Voodoo2 SLI 90/90 Mhz (192-bit, 8MB, ver. 2.10) - last DirectX 5 compatible driver, unfamiliar with 3DNOW instructions.
3Dfx Voodoo2 SLI 90/90 Mhz (192-bit, 8Mb, ver. 3.03.00) - last DirectX 6 compatible driver, has 3DNOW optimizations.
3Dfx Voodoo2 SLI 90/90 Mhz (192-bit, 8Mb, ver. 3.02.02) - last DirectX 7 compatible driver, has 3DNOW optimizations.

GLQuake (Opengl)

A short explanation:
MiniGL 1.10 - does not know about the existence of 3DNOW.
MiniGL 1.49 - compatible with 3DNOW instructions.

Incoming (DirectX5)

Excellent analysis!

I particularly like the comparison of earlier Nvidia drivers to the newer ones, and the older MiniGL versions to the final one with 3DNow! support. It's also quite interesting to see how well the budget MX400 and MX440 cards perform on that platform.

Props for doing the benchmarks on so many cards, that must have taken quite a bit of time and effort.

This is just the beginning, there will be more.

Is there going to be more games tested?

10 games

Surprised and impressed by the Matrox G400 in Incoming. I know it was a good Dx5 card, but even beating the best nVidia card+driver combos on a relatively slow CPU - that I had not expected.

Shogo: Mobile Armor Division.

Timedemo - Re: Glide and early D3D and OpenGL games with benchmark features

Descent 3 (DirectX 6) 1999.

Descent 3 (DirectX 6) 1999.

DethKarz.

Awesome stuff!

Out of curiosity, would using DirectX 7.0a instead of 9.0c provide any performance improvements?

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2020-12-11, 17:26:

Awesome stuff!

Out of curiosity, would using DirectX 7.0a instead of 9.0c provide any performance improvements?

Only for DirectX7 games, maximum 0.1 - 0.5 percent.

Quake II (3DNow, demo1)

It's also quite impressive the original Geforce SDR speed compared to the usual architectures.

386SX wrote on 2021-02-12, 09:57:

It's also quite impressive the original Geforce SDR speed compared to the usual architectures.

Absolutely. In Games that'll benefit from the Hardware T&L unit it might be even more impressive in comparison.

Great work! I wasn't expecting the GeForce 2mx 400 to be that fast.

^ The MX 400 isn't "slow" for what it is. Obviously it'd never threaten a GeForce3 or GeForce4 Ti proper, but it's nothing to be overly embarrassed over either for how much it cost.
My favorite card, the S3 Savage4 Xtreme, does about as well as I'd expect. It's not a speed demon, but it does exactly what I need it to do and then some. (And my Number Nine AGP card has DVI output!) It's fascinating to see that its 64-bit memory bus doesn't hobble its 32 bit color performance as much as I expected it to.

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