Game Results

Game Results
Let's look at the gaming results first, with a TNT thrown in for comparison as the current state of the art in 2D/3D cards. Before we start, I should note that the TNT is running at a very mild overclock of 100mhz instead of 90mhz.

Turok 2
Resolution	Rage128	RivaTNT 100Mhz
800x600x16	48.3	48.1
800x600x32	47.5	43.7
1024x768x16	46.7	45.7
1024x768x32	44.0	32.2

Quake 2 Demo1
Resolution	Rage128	RivaTNT 100Mhz
640x480x16	60.1	75.2
640x480x32	59.5	63.6
800x600x16	59.0	61.3
800x600x32	56.3	44.0
1024x768x16	42.3	40.5
1024x768x32	35.7	27.0

Quake 2 Massive1
Resolution	Rage128	RivaTNT 100Mhz
800x600x16	48.2	50.7
800x600x32	43.6	42.3
1024x768x16	38.6	37.9
1024x768x32	33.1	26.4

Viper Racing
Resolution	Rage128	RivaTNT 100Mhz
800x600x16	53.5	53.8
1024x768x16	49.6	50.4

Dethkarz
Resolution	Rage128	RivaTNT 100Mhz
640x480x16	52	61.3
640x480x32	49.9	55.87
800x600x16	40.4	58.9
800x600x32	38	36.3
1024x768x16	35.2	33.6
1024x768x32	29.5	21.8

ATI has improved performance a bit since my preview, but then so has nVidia with the Detonator driver release. The interesting story here, as before, lies with the 32-bit color results. ATI owns high resolutions at high color depths. TNT pretty much takes it away at lower resolutions though. The thing is, how many people play games at 1024x768x32? While 33fps is signficantly faster than 26, is it at a point where people care to use it?