3dfx Benchmarks

This page contains user benchmarks using 3dfx graphics cards.

Michael Dale

System 1

Test system 1: Pentium 3 933MHz, 320MB SDRAM, 3GB HDD, Windows 2000 SP2

Quake 3 Demo

The first value is Timedemo 1 in FPS while the second is Timedemo 2 in FPS

Mode/Resolution	Voodoo 1 4MB	Voodoo 2 12MB	Voodoo 3 2000 PCI	Voodoo 3 3000 AGP	Voodoo 4 4500 AGP	Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
Normal/Voodoo (640x480)	16.1/15.5	50.4/50.9	74.9/75.3	90.9/93.5	94/91.4	94.1/91.2
High/Voodoo (640x480, Lightmap, High, Bilinear)	5.4/4.8	26.5/14.5	69.3/69.1	85.2/86.8	91.5/87.7	91/86.8
Normal/Voodoo (800x600)	-	32.2/32.6	53.3/53.8	67.4/71.6	86.0/88.0	93.5/90.9
High/Voodoo (800x600, Lightmap, High, Bilinear)	-	21.3/13.2	48.9/48.8	61.3/63.9	82.8/83.7	90.4/86.4
Normal/Voodoo Settings (1024x768)	-	-	35.0/35.4	44.3/47.4	60.1/62.8	88.8/88.5
Max/Voodoo (1024x768, Lightmap, High, Bilinear)	-	-	32.2/32.4	40.4/42.6	58.4/60.3	86.1/84.2
Ultra/Voodoo (1024x768, Lightmap, High, Trilinear, 32bit)	-	-	-	-	38.2/40.2	70.4/73.8
Max/Voodoo (1280x1024, Lightmap, High, Bilinear)	-	-	21.3/21.8	25.0/25.8	35.5/37.4	67.1/70.0
Ultra/Voodoo (1280x1024, Lightmap, High, Trilinear, 32bit)	-	-	-	-	21.2/22.6	44.3/46.8

3DMark2000

Resolution	Voodoo 3 2000 PCI	Voodoo 3 3000 AGP	Voodoo 4 4500 AGP	Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
1024x768 16Bit	2634	3039	3037	3935
1280x1024 16Bit	1767	2052	2056	3054

3DMark2001SE

Resolution	Voodoo 3 2000 PCI	Voodoo 3 3000 AGP	Voodoo 4 4500 AGP	Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
1024x768 16Bit	1223	1377	1421	1429
1024x768 32Bit	-	-	1174	1401
1280x1024 16Bit	840	974	1230	1403
1280x1024 32Bit	-	-	762	733

System 2

Test system 2: Dell Pentium 4 2.66GHz, 2GB DDR @ 166MHz, 80GB HDD, Windows XP SP3

Geforce 2 MX200 32mb AGP

GPU: 175MHz MEM: 143MHz (64bit - 1.1GB/s)

ForceWare 93.71

TNT2 M64 32mb AGP

GPU: 125MHz MEM: 150MHz (64bit - 1.2GB/s)

ForceWare 66.93

V770 TNT2 Ultra 32mb AGP

GPU: 150MHz MEM: 183MHz (128bit - 2.9GB/s)

ForceWare 66.93

ASUS V6600 Geforce 256 32mb AGP

GPU: 120MHz MEM: 166MHz (128bit - 2.7GB/s)

ForceWare xx

Radeon 9600XT

GPU: 500MHz MEM: 350MHz (128bit - 11.2GB/s)

Cat 10.2.

3dmark2001se 12018

Quake 3 Demo

Mode/Resolution	Voodoo 1 4MB PCI	Voodoo Rush PCI	Voodoo 2 12MB PCI	Voodoo 2 12MB PCI SLI	Voodoo Banshee 16MB PCI	Voodoo 3 2000 PCI	Voodoo 3 3000 PCI	Voodoo 4 4500 PCI	Voodoo 5 5500 PCI	TNT2 M64 32MB AGP	TNT2 Ultra 32MB AGP	Geforce 2 MX 200 AGP	Geforce 256 AGP	Geforce 3 Ti 200 64MB AGP	Radeon 9600XT AGP
1024x768, Lightmap, High, Trilinear, 16bit	-	-	-	-	18.8fps	38.1fps	-	53.2fps	-	27.5fps	39.4fps	45.5fps		167.2fps
1024x768, Lightmap, High, Trilinear, 32bit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	55fps	-	194.4fps
1280x1024, Lightmap, High, Trilinear, 16bit	-	-	-	-	10.1fps	23.0fps	-	32.6fps	-	14.8fps	24.1fps	27.4fps		110.0fps