Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:56 pm
new data for a geforce2 gts pro is now available.
due to the fact that driver 82.16 does not support geforce2-cards (except the -mx versions) I had to find another driver. my choice is the 71.84 driver, which is the latest driver that supports this model. I took this rather "new" driver because of the good results late 82.16 produced with the gf2-mx models.
one problem seldom comes alone is a saying here in austria and it immediately turned out to be true. the game expendable does not run with driver 71.84 and so I had to use 44.03 for this one.
the geforce 2 gts pro is a -mx card with 128 bit memory bus width paired with DDR video ram which gives a great boost in memory bandwidth compared with the -mx models.
also the card has now 4 pixel pipes instead of only 2 of the -mx model which doubles texel fillrate.
how does the card compare to the mx-models benched so far? the card takes the lead in most of the benches but the gf2-mx-32 still manages to beat the card in many disciplines. what surprises me most is that the gf2-mx beats the gf-2 where it "logically" should not: at quality settings (32bit colors and resolution at 1280x1024 (960) and 1600x1200! interestingly this is only true for the games set #1 (opengl-benches + expendable (d3d, dx6), which is run with 82.16. games set #2 (44.03) does not give the lead to the gf-2-mx once!
the geforce 2-mx also manages to keep the first place in unreal tournament in 5 out of 6 setups. just amazing!
next card in the queue: a gainward gf-2ti-500 golden sample with core/mem speed at 270/250mhz respectively: A-GF2Ti500-270/4/2-D64/250/128
due to the fact that driver 82.16 does not support geforce2-cards (except the -mx versions) I had to find another driver. my choice is the 71.84 driver, which is the latest driver that supports this model. I took this rather "new" driver because of the good results late 82.16 produced with the gf2-mx models.
one problem seldom comes alone is a saying here in austria and it immediately turned out to be true. the game expendable does not run with driver 71.84 and so I had to use 44.03 for this one.
the geforce 2 gts pro is a -mx card with 128 bit memory bus width paired with DDR video ram which gives a great boost in memory bandwidth compared with the -mx models.
also the card has now 4 pixel pipes instead of only 2 of the -mx model which doubles texel fillrate.
how does the card compare to the mx-models benched so far? the card takes the lead in most of the benches but the gf2-mx-32 still manages to beat the card in many disciplines. what surprises me most is that the gf2-mx beats the gf-2 where it "logically" should not: at quality settings (32bit colors and resolution at 1280x1024 (960) and 1600x1200! interestingly this is only true for the games set #1 (opengl-benches + expendable (d3d, dx6), which is run with 82.16. games set #2 (44.03) does not give the lead to the gf-2-mx once!
the geforce 2-mx also manages to keep the first place in unreal tournament in 5 out of 6 setups. just amazing!
next card in the queue: a gainward gf-2ti-500 golden sample with core/mem speed at 270/250mhz respectively: A-GF2Ti500-270/4/2-D64/250/128