Product Diamond Viper II Model Z200
MSRP

$199.99 Street

ESRP

$146.00 Online
Bus

1X/2X/4X AGP
Chip

Savage2000

Quake 2

Despite it's age, Quake2 and it's engine still remain very popular, with Soldier of Fortune using a (highly modified) Quake2 engine. So, I felt it deserved to be included. Quake2 uses an OpenGL engine utilizing colored lighting, dynamic light effects and such, so let's give it a go!

Demo1

 

16-bit

32-bit

640x480

102.7

103.7
800x600

101.1

100.7
1024x768

91.8

89.5

Very nice results. The image quality was fantastic too, even with VSync off. Unlike other Savage chipsets, no tearing was visible with VSync off.

Crusher

 

16-bit

32-bit

640x480

51.9

53.5
800x600

51.5

53.5
1024x768

51.0

52.2

I'm CPU limited here, obviously. I don't know why the 32-bit scores are better than the 16-bit. A little strange, but I'm not complaining! Take a look at Massive1..

Massive1

 

16-bit

32-bit

640x480

78.2

81.0
800x600

78.6

80.1
1024x768

75.1

75.2

The oddness repeats. Despite that the Viper2 does very well in Quake2, aided by my CPU. It could be faster, but when the T+L comes in we should see even faster results, as all OpenGL games can benefit hardware T+L.

Page 10 Benchmarking: Quake 3 Arena