Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 GeForce 2 GTS

Quake III Arena Performance- demo001

Using the default clock speeds, the 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 performed similarly to other GeForce 2 GTS cards, meaning that it was already on the top of the food chain. When overclocked, the speed associated with the GeForce 2 GTS only grew more. No longer were we limited by the speed associated with the fastest GPU currently available, but we were able to achieve a full 2 Gigatexels per second. Although the card, which performed 65% faster than the GeForce 256 DDR when at 1280x1024x16, did not see much improvement from overclocking at resolutions below 1024x768x32, at this resolution and above we were able to see where the speed of 2 Gigatexels per second and 395 MHz memory clock went.

When at the overclocked speed of 250/395, the Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 performed 22% faster than the normally clocked card when at 1600x1200x32, resulting in a frame rate of 36.3 FPS. This makes Quake III Arena playable (by some user's definition) at the very impressive and highly sought resolution of 1600x1200x32. At the more obtainable resolution of 1280x1024x32, the overclocked card was able to achieve 54.4 FPS, a 9.3 FPS speed increase over the normally clocked 3D Blaster Annihilator 2.