MSI StarForce 822 Retail GeForce3 64MB

OpenGL Performance - Serious Sam

As we can see, the initial performance of the new MSI StarForce 822 does not vary much from the initial version. Both cards fall on the upper-end of the performance spectrum, with the Gainward GeForce3 still remaining on top. The new MSI StarForce 822 is outperformed in Serious Sam at 640x480x32 by about 2%.

It seems that the BIOS update did help the MSI StarForce 822 performance wise. The new version, with better cooling and an updated BIOS, out performed the old version of the card by 1.5%, leaving it only 1.5% behind the fastest card tested, the Gainward GeForce3.

Again, at 1600x1200x32, we see that the performance of the new StarForce 822 was able to do slightly better than before. This places the second revision of the StarForce 822 2% slower than the Gainward GeForce3 and slightly faster than competing cards