The last few days it was D(etonator)-Days, 27.23/27.30/27.42 were leaked. So I've tested these drivers against 27.20. (That driver was the best driver for my system)
The drivers were tested with 3DMark2001 under Windows XP. And there is a NEW King ;) Click Read More... if you wanna see the results! The PC they were tested on was a:
AMD Athlon 1333 (Non-Overclocked) "Real Clock 1336.35"
EPoX 8KHA+ (KT266A chipset)
256 MB RAM PC2100
VisionTek GeForce 3 (Overclocked at 235/540)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
DirectX 8.1
These are the settings I used:
All the settings were default except
Vsync = Off
Monitor = 75Hz If the score is bold that's the highest score of the 4 tests then.
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The 1st test was the Detonator 27.20 3DMark Score 7535 3D marks Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 116.7 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 43.5 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 111.2 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 62.5 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 122.0 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 56.9 FPS
Game 4 Nature 39.0 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 759.3 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1561.7 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 light) 23.7 MTriangels/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 6.0 MTriangels/s
Environment Bump Mapping 122.5 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping 123.7 FPS
Vertex Shader 61.3 FPS
Pixel Shader 89.2 FPS
Point Sprite 17.3 MSprites/s
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The 2nd test was the Detonator 27.23 3DMark Score 7532 3D marks Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 117.9 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 43.3 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 111.2 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 62.5 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 121.4 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 56.7 FPS
Game 4 Nature 39.0 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 759.3 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1561.3 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 light) 23.7 MTriangels/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 6.0 MTriangels/s
Environment Bump Mapping 122.2 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping 123.6 FPS
Vertex Shader 61.4 FPS
Pixel Shader 89.2 FPS
Point Sprite 17.3 MSprites/s
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The 3rd test was the Detonator 27.30 3DMark Score 7548 3D marks Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 118.3 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 43.3 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 111.3 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 62.5 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 121.4 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 57.1 FPS
Game 4 Nature 39.0 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 759.3 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1561.6 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 light) 23.7 MTriangels/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 6.0 MTriangels/s
Environment Bump Mapping 122.7 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping 123.6 FPS
Vertex Shader 61.4 FPS
Pixel Shader 89.2 FPS
Point Sprite 17.3 MSprites/s
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The 4th test was the Detonator 27.42 3DMark Score 7544 3D marks Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 118.3 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 43.3 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 111.2 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 62.5 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 121.7 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 56.8 FPS
Game 4 Nature 39.0 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 759.3 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1561.3 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 light) 23.7 MTriangels/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 6.0 MTriangels/s
Environment Bump Mapping 122.5 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping 123.6 FPS
Vertex Shader 61.3 FPS
Pixel Shader 89.2 FPS
Point Sprite 17.3 MSprites/s
So there is a new king the Detonator 27.30!
Not much with total score but every bit helps.
I will stay with the 27.42 because they are the latest and they are good too. All the detonators were stable for my system. So try them out on your system and see what detonators are best for your very own. (but every computer is different, so maybe on other computers they work different ) TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK!! Greetings,
SUPR3M3 (BTW... I think it's weird that NVmax already has 27.80, because 27.42 is dated 01-February-2002, so then they have future drivers??) And if nVidia releases an OFFICIAL Detonator then I will do some extended comparison with more testprograms.