Sub-$200 Video Card Roundup - April 2002

CPU Scaling under Serious Sam 2

Here we have noticeably flatter CPU scaling curves; after the 1GHz mark even the GeForce4 Ti 4200 begins to flatten out indicating that with all of the visual features turned up at 1024x768, the Serious engine is running into video card bottlenecks. Here we have to look at acceptable frame rate levels and pretty much everything below the GeForce3 Ti 200 and Radeon 8500LE are a bit lower than we'd like to see.