Imagination Technologies / STMicro PowerVR Series 3: KYRO
by Michael Andrawes on June 7, 2000 11:27 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
The Test
Since we performed the tests on the same systems that we tested the GeForce 2 GTS on, below is an except from that review:
We chose three systems to measure the performance of these video cards. Remember that this is a comparison of the performance of video cards, not of CPUs or motherboard platforms.
For our High End testing platform, we picked an Athlon 750 running on a KX133 motherboard. The Athlon 750 is fast enough that it won’t be a limiting factor in the benchmarks and should also provide a good estimate of how all of the cards compared would perform on a 600 – 800MHz Athlon or Pentium III system (it will at least tell you which card would be faster).
For our Low End testing platform we picked a Pentium III 550E running on a BX motherboard. Although this isn’t a very “low-end” processor, it is fast enough to see a performance difference between video cards without the processor stepping in as a huge limitation. If we used something like a Celeron 466, the performance of virtually all the cards would be virtually identical at the lower resolutions because the CPU and FSB/memory buses are limiting factors. Once again, this is a test of graphics cards not of CPU/platform performance.
Keep in mind that the drivers here are ALPHA drivers and that performance and stability is likely to improve. In addition, the default clock speed will be increasing by 10 MHz, which should further provide a speed boost.
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Windows 98 SE Test System |
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Hardware |
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CPU(s) |
Intel Pentium III 550E |
AMD Athlon 750
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| Motherboard(s) | AOpen AX6BC Pro Gold | ASUS K7V-RM | |||
| Memory |
128MB PC133 Corsair SDRAM |
128MB
PC133 Corsair SDRAM
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| Hard Drive |
IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66 |
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| CDROM |
Phillips 48X |
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| Video Card(s) |
3dfx
Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64MB ATI
Rage 128 Pro 32MB ATI Rage Fury MAXX 64MB Matrox Millennium G400MAX 32MB (would not run on Athlon platform) NVIDIA
GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR (default clock - 200/166 DDR) S3 Diamond Viper II 32MB Imagine Technologies KYRO 64MB Reference Board (default clock - 115/115) |
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| Ethernet |
Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter |
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Software |
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Operating System |
Windows 98 SE |
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Benchmarking Applications |
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| Gaming |
GT
Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.04 AnandTech.dem |
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Lanning Donald - Saturday, March 28, 2020 - link
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