Benchtest system
Asus CUSL2 i815 mainboard
128megs Mushkin PC150 ESDRAM
Windows Millineum OS
Benchmarks ran
Madonion's 3Dmark2000, default benchmark
First, let's take a look at a graph snippet from another upcoming review, with the Geforce2MX all by it's lonesome running on a Celeron2 and P3 at several clockrates.
You can see from the above graph a decent indication of
the GPU's scalability. The new 1.25y release of Quake3Arena, includes new demo's
so these numbers are not comparable to benchmarks ran under 1.17 or earlier
releases. Not a bad number in sight in the above, as the demo (based on
8-players in the Q3DM15 map) is rather hardcore.
Here we see it in comparison to my Geforce DDR, again with both cards running at default settings and clocks.
At the FAST and NORMAL benchmark settings, things are pretty much neck and neck here. You begin to see at HIGH QUALITY and the HIGH QUALITY 1024x768 settings the effects of the 64bit memory bus on the Geforce2MX, with higher resolutions, and higher bitdepth textures, bandwidth becomes an issue.
This is further born out in Madonion's 3D-Mark 2000
default benchmark, which runs at 1024x768 16bit
MSI Starforce 816
Geforce DDR
Here we see the Geforce2MX sacrificing about 11%
performance to the last generation Geforce DDR.