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VIDEOLOGIC VIVID XS KYRO 2
"Videologic VividXS Kyro 2 review tested against the Palit Daytona GeForce2 MX. Video cards tested on a system using a 1.3Ghz Athlon and a JETWAY 663AS PRO. Software used was:- Max Payne, Quake 3 and Serious Sam."
 For this test we are using the Palit Daytona GeForce 2 MX and the new Videologic Vivid XS using the amazing Kyro 2 gpu, they are both AGP and have 32MB of memory.
WHY IS TILE BASED RENDERING SO SPECIAL?
The Kyro 2 uses tile based rendering instead of the more common immediate mode rendering used in such cards as the GeForce2. With immediate mode rendering all of the scene is generated, with tile based rendering only visible parts of the scene are rendered. This approach is obviously more efficent and it means that the video card has to process less information thus saving memory bandwidth.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO SAVE MEMORY BANDWIDTH?
Even though video cards are getting more and more powerful all of the main graphics chip producers face the same problem, memory bandwidth. The higher the resolution, colour depth or number of polygons the more memory bandwidth you will need. You can only pass a certain amount of information over the video card's memory bus, this is the problem they are all facing. ATI was first to tackle the memory bandwidth problem with their HyperZ technology which provides a huge 40% performance increase in some tests. Nvidia introduced the Lightspeed Memory Architecture for the , however none of these go far enough to prevent the latest video cards from being limited by memory bandwidth.
There's one chipset which doesn't use immediate mode rendering, it uses something very different. Something efficent, something called tile based rendering. Tile based rendering is nothing new, it's been around for quite a while but so far has never really caught on. With the release of the Kyro 2 gpu I'm sure that's all about to change.
GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION
| PROCESSOR |
AMD ATHLON 1.3GHZ |
| VIDEO CARD |
VIDEOLOGIC VIVID XS KYRO 2 |
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PALIT DAYTONA GEFORCE2 MX 32MB AGP |
| POWERVR DRIVER |
v1.04.14.0028 |
| NVIDIA DRIVER |
DETONATOR v23.11 |
| MOTHERBOARD |
JETWAY 663AS PRO |
| MEMORY |
512MB SAMSUNG PC-133 SDRAM |
| OPERATING SYSTEM |
WINDOWS 98 SE |
| DIRECTX VERSION |
v8.1 |
QUAKE 3
 | 123 |
 | 115 |
| 103 |
| 107 |
| 70 |
| 100 |
PALIT GEFORCE2 MX VIDEOLOGIC VIVIDXS
COMMENT "The first test is the Quake 3 test, the Palit GeForce2 MX has always done well with this game as a benchmark so I expected it to do quite well. The Palit GeForce2 MX takes an early lead using the ugly fastest setting, this is due to hardware transform and lighting which takes some of the work load off the cpu. However increase the quality settings and the Videologic VividXS Kyro 2 gains an advantage when the memory bandwidth limitations of the Palit GeForce2 MX start to take effect. At the high quality setting the Videologic VividXS Kyro 2 has achieved a 30fps advantage." |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Default GLdriver
GL Extensions on
Fullscreen on
Four.dm68 Benchmark
FASTEST QUALITY
512x384 Video Mode
16Bit Colour Depth
16Bit Texture Quality
Vertex Lighting
Geometic Detail Low
Texture Detail 50%
Bilinear Texture Filtering
NORMAL QUALITY
640x480 Video Mode
16Bit Colour Depth
16Bit Texture Quality
Lightmap Lighting
Geometic Detail Medium
Texture Detail 75%
Bilinear Texture Filtering
HIGH QUALITY
800x600 Video Mode
32Bit Colour Depth
32Bit Texture Quality
Lightmap Lighting
High Geometic Detail
Full Texture Detail
Trilinear Texture Filtering
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QUAKE 3
| 112 |
| 107 |
| 103 |
| 107 |
| 74 |
| 101 |
PALIT GEFORCE2 MX VIDEOLOGIC VIVIDXS
COMMENT "The Palit GeForce2 MX starts off strongly but loses the lead to the Videologic VividXS Kyro 2 in the higher resolutions, both video cards achieve a strong 100fps at 800x600 which is good. The Videologic VividXS Kyro 2 is the only video card to get over 100fps at ALL resolutions tested." |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Default GLdriver
GL Extensions on
Fullscreen on
Four.dm68 Benchmark
NORMAL QUALITY
16Bit Colour Depth
16Bit Texture Quality
Lightmap Lighting
Geometic Detail Medium
Texture Detail 75%
Bilinear Texture Filtering
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QUAKE 3
| 112 |
| 107 |
| 101 |
| 103 |
| 71 |
| 77 |
PALIT GEFORCE2 MX VIDEOLOGIC VIVIDXS
COMMENT "Now we are going to use a more advanced form of filtering called Trilinear filtering which offers better image quality than Bilinear but in some cases results in a large performance hit. Here we see things are much closer between the two video cards, the Videologic VividXS Kyro 2 just about wins this benchmark. The reason the Palit GeForce2 MX was able to keep up was due to the Videologic VividXS Kyro 2 taking a larger performance hit than the Palit GeForce2 MX at higher resolutions, using 16bit also helped the Palit GeForce2 MX because of it's limited bandwidth." |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Default GLdriver
GL Extensions on
Fullscreen on
Four.dm68 Benchmark
NORMAL QUALITY
16Bit Colour Depth
16Bit Texture Quality
Lightmap Lighting
Geometic Detail Medium
Texture Detail 75%
Trilinear Texture Filtering
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