Next-Generation Game Performance with the Unreal Engine: 15-way GPU Shootout

Unreal Performance Test 2002 (Build 848) 800 x 600 x 32 (Performance in fps - Higher is better) ATI Radeon 8500 NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 500 NVIDIA GeForce3 NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 ATI Radeon 7500 NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti 200 ST Micro Kyro II NVIDIA GeForce2 Pro ATI Radeon DDR NVIDIA GeForce DDR NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 NVIDIA GeForce2 MX NVIDIA GeForce 256 NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200 73.1 64.0 54.5 47.9 41.3 40.6 37.1 34.9 34.2 30.5 22.2 20.5 18.9 18.3 11.0 | 0 | 15 | 29 | 44 | 58 | 73 | 88

As the resolution increases the performance difference between the Radeon 8500 and the GeForce3 Ti 500 increases even more, now to over 14%. The ability to scale better with resolution could be because of the fact that HyperZ II is more efficient than NVIDIA's visibility subsystem but it's very difficult to hypothesize at this point.

The standings don't change too much although we do notice that the GeForce3 Ti 200 jumps ahead of the ATI Radeon 7500, now leading it by 15%.

The Kyro II moved up in the standings and is now only 6% away from the GeForce2 Ti 200.

If you look at the benchmarks from a playable performance standpoint, the current GeForce2 MX series is entirely too slow and the original Radeon is on the borderline at 800 x 600.