MSI StarForce 822 Retail GeForce3 64MB

DX8 Performance - Aquamark

In Aquamark, the most stressful of benchmarks, the new StarForce 822 was able to improve performance very slightly when compared to the previous version of the card. Here, the StarForce 822 is able to score the same as the Gainward GeForce3, leaving both these cards on top of the charts.

At 1024x768x32, the new StarForce 822 was able to break out of the pack, so to say, by performing .1 FPS than the rest of the cards tested. As we mentioned before, Aquamark is a very stressful benchmark and it is for this reason that all the cards perform relatively the same. The .1 FPS difference equates to a .4% speed increase: nothing to write home about, but interesting nonetheless.

At 1600x1200x32, all GeForce3 cards perform the same in Aquamark. This is because of the extreme stress the cards are placed under when playing this demo and thus it is the GeForce3 core itself that is being stressed, not all aspects of the card.