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 :

NBench :

I'm sure most of you are familiar with this one by now. NBench was created by AMD to benchmark AMD processors and although this leaves them open to accusations that it's optimised for AMD platforms I've yet to see any evidence of this. In fact, it looks just as terrible on Intel platforms as it does AMD. Forget the dated looking graphics though, it still works your CPU and graphics card so it's still a valid benchmark.

Here's a quick comparison with the results from Creative's 3DBlaster Ti500.

Creative Ti500	Elsa 721TV-Out
8088	7831

 

Final Reality :

This DirectX 5 benchmark makes little or no use of many of today's advanced graphics tricks and tweaks and provides a good look at retro compatibility and power.

Creative Ti500	Elsa 721TV-Out
10.49	11.21

A slightly strange result here that I'm struggling to explain. What I can explain is that both cards shown ran the benchmark with no problems at all and visual quality appeared identical, as expected. To make the result even stranger, the bulk of the difference in score came from the "3D Performance" portion of the score. Very strange!

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