I will be using 3DMark2001SE, Vulpine GLmark, Quake 3, and Serious Sam as benchmarks. All of the testing was done with all the eye candy turned on and everything at it’s highest. A 3DPower Geforce 3, Abit Siluro Geforce 4 MX440 will be used to compare against the XFX Geforce 4 MX440. I benchmarks with the resolutions of 1024×768, 1280×1024, and 1600×1200, I did not do 800×600 because I don’t feel that many people out there are using that low of a resolution.
Test bed:
- EPoX 8KHA+
- AMD Athlon XP 1900+
- 512MB PC2100 Crucial DDR
- Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1
- Linksys LNE100TX
- Nokia 445Pro 21″ Triniton
- Windows 2000 SP2
- Nvidia 27.20 drivers
- Via 4.37 4-in-1 Driver
As you can see, in 3DMark2001SE the XFX Geforce 4 MX440 does not do very well. The main reason the score is so low is because it was not able to run 3 of the tests. It was unable to run the environment bump mapping and the 2 pixel shading tests, which are Geforce 3 features and this card does not include. Keep in mind though that these features are used very little if at all in any real games out right now. You can also see that both of the Geforce 4 cards are pretty close in score with one edging out the other and visa versa depending on the resolution.
Again the Geforce 4 MX440 did not perform very well in Vulpine GLmark because of the fact that it has no Geforce 3 features and I had them turned on for the benchmarking. Like I said before though most of these features are not used in real games, still you can see that both of the Geforce 4 cards perform almost identically.
The Quake 3 testing went really well, unlike the testing in 3DMark2001SE and Vulpine GLmark the Geforce 4 MX440 did really well. As you can see the Geforce 4 MX440 was only around 10-12 FPS lower than the stock Geforce 3. As you can see there the real world performance of this card is much different that of benchmarking programs. The XFX Geforce 4 MX440 did not perform as well against the Abit Geforce 4 MX440 but the difference is not that much.
The Serious Sam testing the results were more like those of 3DMark2001SE and Vulpine GLmark, the Geforce 4 MX440 did not perform as well as it did in Quake 3. This is due to the fact that Serious Sam uses more high detail features than quake 3 I also believe that it does use some Geforce 3 features which the Geforce 4 MX cards do not have. The Abit Geforce 4 MX440 still out performed the XFX card for some reason.
