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Roundup of 7 Contemporary Integrated Graphics Chipsets for Socket 478 and Socket A Platforms (page 10)

Category: Chipsets

by Tim Tscheblockov

[ 07/05/2004 | 11:09 AM ]

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter

The nForce2 IGP looks very well in this OpenGL test. Up till now, the efficient architecture and HyperZ technology allowed RADEON 9100 IGP to be faster than NVIDIA’s chipset, in spite of having only one TMU per pipeline and thus a lower texturing speed. In this test, however, the nForce2 goes unrivalled.

The results don’t grow too much as we switch to the “speedy” settings. Only the nForce2 IGP and the RADEON 9100 IGP can run Serious Sam fast enough for a comfortable play.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Aces

Contrary to my expectations, the Sturmovik is flying fast at the medium graphics-quality settings on the integrated chipsets. In 800x600, all the chipsets, save for the outsiders from VIA and SiS, give out enough fps.

The results grow up as we switch to the “speedy” settings and the SiS741GX may be found playable in 800x600 here. Well, this chipset in fact produces a disgusting picture, but we’ll talk about the image quality later on.