Review: Elsa Shootout

by David Ross on 29 March 2001, 00:00

Tags: ELSA

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Elsa Gladiac GTS OpenGL Benchmarks

Quake 3 was run again in all the various resolutions

Graph below showing, all the various resolutions and for standard clocks speed and overclocked speed, overclocked FPS denoted by "c" in the graph key

Again the tables below show the exact FPS in more detail, for those that are interested (O:

Overclocking this card gave a marked improvement in the High Quality settings, a free upgrade really

Default Clock Speed

640*480 800*600 1024*768 1280*1024 1600*1200
Fastest 109.9 109.8 106.9 99.4 76.3
Normal 105.2 102.9 90.7 55.3 36.6
HQ 104.2 102.8 89.8 54.4 36.2
Extra HQ 102.3 99.5 85.4 51.2 34.1

Overclocked Scores

640*480c 800*600c 1024*768c 1280*1024c 1600*1200c
Fastest 110.2 109.4 108.6 103.6 86.4
Normal 105.1 103.7 96.7 66.4 44.5
HQ 104.9 103.1 96.1 65.1 44.1
Extra HQ 103.1 101.5 93.1 61.6 41.2

Again the benchmarks where run with the CPU turned up 600Mhz to 1300Mhz (O:.

Default Clock Speed

640*480 800*600 1024*768 1280*1024 1600*1200
Fastest 156.7 155.1 147.8 115.3 77.4
Normal 146.7 134.4 98.8 55.6 36.8
HQ 146.4 134.1 96.2 54.7 36.4
Extra HQ 141.8 127.4 89.6 51.3 34.1

Overclocked Scores

640*480c 800*600c 1024*768c 1280*1024c 1600*1200c
Fastest 156.8 155.3 150.3 128.6 90.9
Normal 147.2 139.9 114.2 66.8 44.7
HQ 146.8 139.7 112.2 65.5 44.2
Extra HQ 143.3 135.7 105.2 61.4 41.4

As always the faster the CPU and the faster the graphics card speed the higher the results are. Simple, well up to a point, once you reach the fill rate limit of the card then all the scores even out, at 1600*1200 resolution, in the Extra High Quality setting no matter what CPU speed I used I got a maximum score of around 41FPS. The only way to increase this would be either more Graphics card video memory, or a higher memory clock speed, these in combination add up to the Geforce2 Ultra. But as I haven't got a Geforce2 Ultra to try out, You might as well get on with the D3D benchmarks (O: