In the realm of home and business desktops, we find the performance of graphics boards based on the nVidia GeForce 256 and the newer, faster nVidia GeForce2 GTS to be unsurpassed. 42.2 109.7 27.9 45.4 16.6 9.3 5.4 All scores are in frames per second. High scores are best.
Bold type denotes first place.
Now the technical differences. Comparatively, the GeForce 256 delivers 480 million pps running at a core clock of 120 MHz, the 3Dlabs Oxygen GVX210 attains 223 million pps, and the Wildcat 4110 is rated at 143 million pps. The Quadro-based ELSA Gloria II held its own on these tests, but the S3 and Intense3D boards did best. All the boards using nVidia chips could not run our SoftImage test properly because of a driver incompatibility that nVidia claims should be fixed within a few months. If you primarily use applications that are fill-rate intensive, have much shading and texturing but do not require advanced OpenGL features, check out a GTS card.