Integrated Graphics Performance (continued)

Now it's time for the grande finale - the gaming tests. We compared the nForce2 (and all of its memory configurations) to a discrete GeForce4 MX 420, GeForce4 MX 440 and an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro.

All of the aforementioned graphics cards are considered to be entry level cards all with a street price of less than $100. We ran all benchmarks on the same nForce2 board at 1024x768. For all discrete tests we ran the nForce2 in DualDDR mode as it provided the highest performance with the IGP disabled and it's how most nForce2 owners using discrete graphics will configure their systems.

3DMark 2001

 
3DMark Score @ 1024x768
Multitextured Fill rate (MTexels/s)
High Polygon Count - 1 Lights (MTriangles/s)
High Polygon Count - 8 Lights (MTriangles/s)
EMBM (fps)
DOT3 (fps)
Vertex Shader (fps)
Pixel Shader (fps)
Advanced Shader (fps)
Point Sprites (MSprites/s)
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
8301
1085.5
21.6
5.0
142.1
80.5
85.8
111.4
77.7
18.0
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420
4121
491.6
24.7
5.8
N/A
32.0
35.0
N/A
N/A
6.2
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440
7487
1090.7
34.4
6.7
N/A
77.5
52.2
N/A
N/A
11.0
NVIDIA nForce2 IGP (DDR333)
2949
461.9
19.8
4.7
N/A
29.8
32.0
N/A
N/A
8.2
NVIDIA nForce2 IGP (DDR400)
3525
557.3
21.9
4.7
N/A
36.0
38.7
N/A
N/A
9.7
NVIDIA nForce2 IGP (DualDDR333)
4618
763.9
24.0
4.8
N/A
50.0
49.7
N/A
N/A
12.2
NVIDIA nForce2 IGP (DualDDR400)
5183
791.0
24.6
4.8
N/A
55.8
51.5
N/A
N/A
13.2

As you can see by these preliminary numbers, with only a single channel of DDR333 memory the nForce2 IGP cannot outperform even the slowest GeForce4 MX 420.

In fact, performance isn't reasonable unless you utilize both 64-bit memory controllers and enable DualDDR; only then is the nForce2 IGP able to outperform the GeForce4 MX 420, although it is still unable to reach the performance of the MX 440.

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