The Gainward 5950 Ultra I have is only benching 8900(ish) in 3DMark2001 2x which seems slow considering your 4800 is getting very close to that. I have that Chinese Gigabyte GA-6VTXE-A ripoff board that uses the infamous VIA 694x(NB), VIA686(SB) chipset family that I bought from Alibaba. Gainward ti 4800 // ASUS TUSL2-C // 1400 MHz Tualatin S // 3DMark2001 // 1024x768x32 // 8517Īthlon XP is in a different league compared to Pentium III, I think, Here two 3DMark2001 results that are somewhat in line with what you want to know: Gainward ti 4800 // ASUS TUSL2-C // 1400 MHz T PARKE wrote: Here two 3DMark2001 results that are somewhat in line with what you want to know: It's pretty rare though from what I understand and you might need PCIe to get around that entirely anyway. Some situations use a lot of bus traffic.
It's also possible that you might run into a bottleneck in special cases with a Glide wrapper. But it is also extraordinarily CPU limited so it won't matter with a P3. This will be slower if you are at AGP 2x. While the 8500/9100's hardware Truform is a technology meant to reduce bus traffic with more complex geometry, the software based emulation on other cards does the opposite. One thing that does use A LOT of AGP bandwidth is ATI's software-based Truform (anything not Radeon 8500/9100). 128MB is already quite a bit for games you'd run on a P3. If a game starts to use a lot of AGP texturing it might cause stuttering even with AGP 8x so you'd probably just want a video card with more local memory. Synthetic tests can certainly tell you other things though. Really I think that from a practical, gaming standpoint that there is little difference between AGP 2x and 4x.
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