Diamond Viper V770 Ultra 32MB with NVIDIA's 3.53 reference Detonator drivers (150/175)
Now let's get on to the testing!
Quake III: Arena Test tests OpenGL performance and makes use of the GeForce's hardware T&L. In order to test the Normal settings for Quake 3, we set the Graphics Options to Normal and changed only the resolution for each different test. V-sync was disabled.
As we can see, the GeForce definitely provides a performance increase over the TNT2 Ultra in the T&L enabled Quake 3: Arena. Performance ranged from a 45% increase at low resolutions with the Pentium III 620MHz to about a 20% increase on both platforms at 1280x1024. Other than that, the numbers speak for themselves.