Viper V770 Benchmark

I tested the V770 on Pentium III-450 at 450 and 580Mhz. It had the following equipment:

• Intel PIII at 450 and 580Mhz

• Abit BX6 v2 Motherboard

• In Win 24" ATX Case With 250 Watts PS

• 128 Megs PC-125 SDRAM

• Acer 40X CD Rom

• Seagate Medalist Pro 6.5 Gig 7200RPM Hard Drive

• Sound Blaster Live Value

• Acer PCI Network card

• Acer 40X CD ROM

• Windows 98 SE

I used Quake 2, Unreal and 3D Mark 99 Max as the benchmarks. All tests were ran 3 times and the average score is shown. All drivers were the latest ones from the manufacturers. The V770 was tested at it's rated speed of 125/150. I also included benchmarks from the card running at a much higher 166/185. Just for comparison, I tossed in the scores from the V3 3000 at it's rated 166Mhz speed. Vsync was turned off. No tweaks or special cfg files were used. 3D Mark 99 Max was ran at 800x600, 16 bit color, 16 bit Z-Buffer, Triple Frame Buffer.

Pentium III 450 Results

The V770 does very well against the V3 3000 at 166/185. The only game it falls short in is Unreal. This is because of the Glide advantage that 3Dfx enjoys in this game. If you love Unreal, the Voodoo 3 would be a better choice than the V770.

Pentium III 580 Results

The V770 scales very well as the CPU speed is increased. All the scores took a nice jump when I increased the speed of the PIII to 580Mhz. Running the V770 at 166/185 it broke the 3D Mark 99 record set by the Voodoo 3 3000 running at 190Mhz!

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