Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 GeForce 2 GTS

Quake III Arena Performance- Quaver

Ever since the introduction of NVIDIA's 5.xx driver set with S3TC compression, Quaver no longer stresses the GeForce series cards like it used to. Because texture swapping was all but eliminated due to the decreased size of the textures, the GeForce series cards respond very well to the texture intensive Quaver demo.

Once again, we find the 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 performing on par with other GeForce 2 GTS cards we have tested. The area where the card really shines is with the overclocked scores. The difference really does not become noticeable until 1024x768x32, where the Quake III engine stops acting as the limiting factor in the tests. At this resolution the overclocked card performed 9.6 FPS faster, for a resulting 12.5% speed increase. At 1280x1024x32, the 2 Gigatexel card was able to gain 8.9 FPS (20%) over the card running at 1.6 Gigatexel. Finally, we see once again that the almost unmentioned 1600x1200x32 resolution is actually becoming playable by many people's standards: at 35.9 FPS, the overclocked card beats the stock card 21.3% (6.3 FPS). Therefore, as one would suspect, the overclocked 3D Blaster Annihilator 2, with a 2 Gigatexel fill rate and a 395 MHz memory clock, takes the crown as the fastest GeForce 2 GTS ever seen at the AnandTech lab.