Elsa Gladiac 920 Video Card
More GeForce 3 Action!

By, Jeff Bouton
October 11, 2001



 

HotHardware Test Systems
Zesty...


 

Intel Pentium III "Tualatin" 1.20GHz.

Global Win FOP38 7000RPM Cooler

256 Mushkin PC133 Rev. 3+ RAM

Western Digital WD300BB 30Gig ATA100 7200 RPM Hard Drive

Shuttle AE25R Motherboard

Elsa Gladiac 920 GeForce 3 Video Card

Hercules Game Theater XP

Windows Millennium

Direct X 8.0a

nVidia reference drivers version 21.81

 

Throughout this review you will notice that we've opted to omit any comparisons to other GeForce 3 video cards.  After reviewing so many GeForce 3's since their release, one thing we've seen is very little performance variance between cards.  So with this review we have simply put this card to the test at both default and overclocked speeds and let the numbers speak for themselves.  Without further adieu, what do you say we jump right in and start cranking out some FPS numbers shall we?
 

 

3DMark 2001
Simply Beautiful...


When it comes to Direct 8 benchmarking programs, it just doesn't get any better than with 3DMark 2001.  This benchmark does an excellent job at flooding a system with DirectX intesive instructions, designed to tax the mightiest of video cards.  Sounds like fun, let's get started!

There is no denying that the ELSA Gladiac 920 can burn through any Direct X gaming you can throw at it.  Once we overclocked the 920, we saw an nominal gain of 5.5% at 800x600, but at 1600x1200, the gain exceeded 16%!  Now let's take a look at some Anti-Aliasing...

When it comes Anti-Aliasing, the visual gains are tremendous, but so is the performance hit the system takes by enabling such a feature.  At 4X the score dropped over 50%, although 3262 is well above acceptable levels at this resolution.

Our next round of tests will focus on the OpenGL...

 


DroneZ, GL Excess/XSMark and Some Quake 3...