doubts with my GTS

[Battousai1]

in how many percent does the GTS outperform a MX200 and a MX400? cause I got doubts with my new GTS I felt that the GTS just outperform my old MX200 at a 20 to 35% rating, I tried benchmarking (3dmark2001) and had a score of 2041+ my MX had a 1200+ score, when I tried umping the 4X antialiasing sample my score went to 1400+ and my MX at 328+
one more thing that bothers me is whenever playing NBA live 2001 at high resolution (1028X728m 32bit color, No Antialiasing) i experience terrible FPS degredation, is it because of my system i got a Pentium III 550, 128 RAM at Cas Latency 2-2-2, 100 Mhz FSB, havent tried overclcoking everyhting yet.

 

[merlocka]

in how many percent does the GTS outperform a MX200 and a MX400

It depends...

In raw power, the GTS has a 800Mpixel fillrate compared to 400Mp for the MX cards.

In memory bandwidth, the GTS has a BW of 5.3Gbps, the MX400 has 2.7 and the MX200 has 1.3.

GTS just outperform my old MX200 at a 20 to 35% rating, I tried benchmarking (3dmark2001) and had a score of 2041+ my MX had a 1200+ score

Hmmm I want you to prepare my taxes for me... According to your 3dmark scores, the GTS is 50% faster. In addition, your 500MHz cpu is holding the GTS back a bit.

when I tried umping the 4X antialiasing sample

Neither card has enough power to run 4x FSAA at decent speeds. ESPECIALLY not the MX200 with it's crippled memory interface.

If games are getting choppy, I suggest upgrading CPU.

 

[Battousai1]

thnx but can you tell me how far good is the GTS over the MX?

 

[Rand]

<< thnx but can you tell me how far good is the GTS over the MX? >>



35% faster then an MX400 I'd say... though of course a great many factors can influence that number.
It's not even worth comparing the MX200 to the GTS, as the GTS absolutely crushes it. More then 100% faster. The MX200 performs similarly to an old TNT2 Ultra/Voodoo3 3000... even the MX400 blows it away.

3DMark 2001 is a poor benchmark at best and it's not terribly accurate to real world performans, and it's heavily biased towards cards that natively support DX8 features. Try 3DMark 2000 if you want to stick with MadOnion's products, though preferably you should try a real world benchmark not a synthetic benchmark like 3DMark.

If you have only a PIII 550MHz your quite clearly processor limited. In all likelyhood your GTS would be no better then an MX400 when backed up by such a processor, though it should still be quite a bit faster then the MX200.

I'd strongly recommend looking into upgrading your processor. Depending upon what motherboard you have, you may well have quite a bit of potential upgradeability without replacing your mobo.
Also, if your running a PIII 550E (Coppermine) then you may want to overclock, the Coppermine PIII 550MHz was a very nice overclocker.
If it's an older Katmai PIII though then your quite unlikely to hit much beyond 600MHz.