The Competition

Let’s take a look at the competing cards and their approximate costs:

Matrox Millennium G400 (32MB) DualHead - $179
Matrox Millennium G400 (16MB) DualHead - $149
NVIDIA TNT2 (32MB) - $100
NVIDIA TNT2 Ultra (32MB) - $150

And then we have the Gigabyte cards:

Gigabyte GA-MG400 (16MB) - $90
Gigabyte GA-MG400 (32MB) - $120

The Test

We were limited in our motherboard choices since the motherboard had to support Gigabyte's VGA BIOS on Motherboard technology, thus we picked the GA-6CX, an i820 Motherboard, and the GA-7IX, a Slot-A Athlon motherboard for the tests.

Windows 98 SE Test System

Hardware

CPU(s)

Intel Pentium III 733 provided by Memman
Intel FC-PGA Pentium III 550E

provided by Azzo

AMD Athlon 800
AMD Athlon 500
Motherboard(s)
Gigabyte GA-6CX
Gigabyte GA-7IX
Memory

128MB Samsung PC800 RDRAM provided by Mushkin

128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM
Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

Gigabyte GA-MG400 16MB (default clock - 125/166)

Matrox Millennium G400 16MB DualHead (default clock - 125/166)
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead (default clock - 125/166)

NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 32MB (default clock - 125/150)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Ultra 32MB (default clock - 150/183)

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows 98 SE

Video Drivers

All G400 Cards used the Matrox 5.50.005 Drivers
All NVIDIA cards used the Detonator 3.68 Drivers

Benchmarking Applications

Gaming

GT Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.04 UTbench.dem
idSoftware Quake III Arena demo001.dm3

Drivers Pentium III 733 - Quake III Arena
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