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GeForce256 Uncovered

by Steve Gibson Sep 23, 1999 6:04pm CST tags: NVidia
3DHardware.net has just revealed their Creative Labs GeForce256 review which features several benchmarks. As some people were speculating earlier from looking at that Korean article, the driver issue at NVidia is not fully resolved, check this:

As the drivers are still in alpha stage, we experienced heavy problems when trying to run simple game benchmarks. Currently, after extensive testing, we found that only Quake III Test seemed to give "accurate" results and it also seems as if nVidia has focused its attention on this particular game.
Quake III Test v.1.08 - Pentium II 450MHz - 128Mb RAM.
High Quality (800x600x32bit) : 58.8FPS
Quake III Test v.1.08 - Pentium III 550MHz - 128 Mb RAM
High Quality (800x600x32bit) : 72.3FPS

For comparison sake, a P3-500 with a Creative TNT2U cranks around 45fps in 800x600 HQ.

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