PUT A LITTLE PUNCH IN YOUR PIXELS
Written: Jan 07 '01 (Updated Jan 07 '01)
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Pros: EXCELLENT GRAPHICS AND CONTROL MENUS
Cons: NONE
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| superdave144's Full Review: Elsa GLADIAC, (32 MB) AGP Video Card |
I upgraded from a voodoo 3 agp card. There were no problems with the voodoo card I thought it was just time to move on. I ran a bunch of benchmark tests on the voodoo card right before I installed the Gladiac. The installation went pretty smooth. I loaded all the drivers right from the cd. It also needed updated drivers from the website (install cd was pretty far behind). I immediately ran the benchmark on the card and it outperformed the voodoo card by about double in almost every category. These were some of the test results that I received.
3DMark Result 5484 3D marks
CPU Speed 390 CPU 3D marks
Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail 119.44 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail 83.70 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail 35.30 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail 111.61 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail 66.79 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail 40.18 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 568.30 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1,172.27 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 4,295 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (4 Lights) 4,281 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 2,917 KTriangles/s
8MB Texture Rendering Speed 388.63 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed 319.18 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed 168.24 FPS
64MB Texture Rendering Speed Not Supported
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 3-pass) 207.96 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 2-pass) 271.06 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 1-pass) 440.75 FPS
Bump Mapping (Environment) Not Supported
This benchmarking website quoted my graphics as "amazing". Other advantages are that the menus are easy to understand. The card can be over clocked without having to load special software. It can work at agp speeds up to 4X. You can even adjust screen color and gamma with this card.
Recommended:
Yes
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