Elsa Gladiac 721TV-Out GeForce3 Ti200

Author : Wayne Date : 30th December 2001

3DVelocity would like to thank Elsa for their help and courtesy in providing this graphics card for review.

Performance Benchmarks :

AMD Athlon XP2000+ CPU
Epox 8KHA+ Motherboards
256MB Kingmax PC2100 DDR SDRAM
Creative Labs Audigy Sound
40GB ATA-100 5400rpm HDD
Detonator 22.50 drivers
Mipmap detail level set for best performance

Vulpine GLmark :

Vulpine is very much the aerobic workout of OpenGL benchmarks. Huge maps, high polygons and visual splendor mean this is one to bring even the most powerful of card to their knees. First up a screenshot of the settings used, and as in the past I stuck with the standard OpenGL 1.2 option to allow a level playing field for future tests perhaps not run on GeForce 3 hardware.

 

If you're wondering how the 921 got on with this benchmark, here's a quick side-by-side.

Elsa 921 DVI	Elsa 721TV-Out
65.3	51.3

The difference looks significant, but that 14fps or so represents less than a 20% shortfall from the 921, or in other words much less than the price disparity...go figure!

FreshDiagnose :

FreshDiagnose is a great new freeware bwnchmarking and disgnostics suite. It looks and fels very much like SiSoft's Sandra and offers very similar features. One thing that was added to version 3.0 was a fairly rudimentary graphics benchmark that concentrates rather conveniently on 2D performance.

Random Pixels	933 KPixels/s
Lines	96,333 Lines/s
Circles	26,557 Circles/s
Rectangles	157,595 Rectangles/s
Texts	1,324,138 Chars/s
FloodFills	16,075,200 KPixels/s
Draw	69,187 KPixels/s

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