Budget Battle: HyperMemory vs. TurboCache
by Derek Wilson on May 12, 2005 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Doom 3 Performance
Not surprisingly, the NVIDIA cards maintain their place as the performance leader in Doom 3. We did run this test in high quality mode, which enables 8x AF; medium or low quality would give more playable results on the cheaper ultra low end cards. This test posts the lowest framerates of all the tests that we looked at today, and luckily, Doom 3 also looks better than most other games when compared at the lowest resolutions.
At 800x600, there is a 14% difference between the two fastest TurboCache cards that we tested. The cheapest NVIDIA and the ATI X300 HyperMemory cards perform equally well here.
X300 HyperMemory performance changes less versus resolution than the NVIDIA cards, but even at the lowest resolution, we would recommend turning off some of the extras and going with a lower quality mode.
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DAPUNISHER - Thursday, May 12, 2005 - link
I'm on my first cup of coffee, so help me out here Derek,what was the test setup config please?erinlegault - Thursday, May 12, 2005 - link
LOL. I beat the losers who care about having the 1st post.erinlegault - Thursday, May 12, 2005 - link
Unfortunately, I don't think this was a completely fair test of hypermemory, since the Radeon X300 (synonymous with 9200) is complete crap, while Geforce 6200 is probably adequate for most users (I think there equivalent or better than the Radeon 9600's)