Budget Video Comparison - November 1999

Windows 98 SE Test System

Hardware

CPU(s)

Intel Pentium III 450
Intel Celeron 300A
Intel Celeron 450A

128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM

Western Digital 8.4GB AC28400 UDMA/33

Kenwood 40X TrueX

3dfx Velocity 100 8MB SGRAM (default clock - 143/143)
3dfx Voodoo3 2000 16MB (default clock - 143/143)
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 16MB (default clock - 166/166)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 32MB (default clock - 125/150)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 32MB (default clock - 125/150)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Pro 32MB (default clock - 143/166)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Ultra 32MB (default clock - 150/183)
Matrox Millenium G400 16MB (default clock - 125/166)
Matrox Millenium G400 MAX 32MB (default clock - 166/200)

Software

Operating System

Windows 98 SE

Matrox Millenium G400 5.25 with Beta TurboGL
NVIDIA 2.08 Reference
3dfx Voodoo3 1.02.18
S3 Savage 4 8.10.13 with Performance ICD 1.00.010

Benchmarking Applications

id Software Quake 3 Test 1.08 (OpenGL)
Rage Expendable (Direct3D)