MSI StarForce 822 GeForce3 64MB

OpenGL Performance - Serious Sam

At 640x480x32, the cards show some differences but no drastic ones. The MSI StarForce 822 performs in the middle of both other cards tested, going 2% slower than the Gainward GeForce3 and 2% faster than the ASUS V8100 Deluxe. The differences between cards at this low resolution is likely a result of different BIOS tweaks and versions, since both the MSI card and the Gainward card use identical designs.

This time the MSI StarForce 822 finds itself at the bottom of the chart, but not by much. As we saw before, the Gainward card was able to gain a slight lead in Serious Sam. This left the StarForce 822 performing 3% slower than this card. The performance difference between the MSI card and the ASUS card was minor (on the order of less than 1%) and could have easily been caused by variations between benchmark runs.

Finally, at 1600x1200x32, the MSI StarForce 822 finds its performance lies between the Gainward and the ASUS card. The Gainward GeForce3 was able to gain a bit of a performance lead, leaving the StarForce 822 about 3% behind. The card performed almost identically, once again, to the ASUS V8100 GeForce 3 card, with the cards only differing in performance by .2 frames per second.

Once again, we only included a limited benchmark suite in this individual card review simply because all the GeForce3 cards tested perform alike. We choose to include Serious Sam performance (above) and Aquamark performance (next page) to give the readers an idea of how the cards perform relative to each other These two benchmarks provide an adequate representation of the cards' relative performance, but complete results can be found in our Gainward CARDEXPERT GeForce3 PowerPack !!! 64MB review.