GPU Shootout with Unreal Tournament 2003 Part II: CPU Scaling

NVIDIA’s GeForce2 Line

The following GPUs are featured in the charts below:

GeForce2 Ultra
GeForce2 Pro
GeForce2 MX 400
GeForce2 MX 200

While the GeForce2 Ultra & Pro can definitely pull some high frame rates, the UT2003 benchmark is clearly saturating their abilities as increasing the CPU clock speed by over 116% doesn’t do an ounce of good.  At the highest detail settings you’re GPU bound if you have any GeForce2 derivative almost regardless of your CPU speed.

Going down to Medium Detail levels fails to help the GeForce2 MX at all; if you have a GeForce2 MX you had better be looking for a graphics upgrade before you even consider touching that CPU. 

The GeForce2 Ultra and Pro scale much better here, but after 1.33GHz the performance benefits start to taper off for both solutions.