The Test

AnandTech has previously shown the performance of the Rage 128 chip to be outstanding, and as such, these benchmarks are not a comprehensive set. For further details, check out our first Rage 128 review. AnandTech will also have a complete review of the final Rage Fury board shortly that will contain all the benchmarks you can stand, including Super 7 systems.

The AnandTech Test System Configuration was as follows:

• Intel Pentium II 400
• ABIT BH6 Pentium II BX Motherboard
• 64MB PC100 SDRAM
• Western Digital Caviar AC35100 - UltraATA
• ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Beta board (16MB SDRAM)
• Matrox Marvel G200 AGP Video Card (16MB SDRAM)
• nVidia Riva TNT (16MB SDRAM)

All Winbench 2D tests were run at 1600 x 1200 x 32 bit color (except the G200 which only supported 24 bit color at that resolution), all gaming performance tests were run at 800 x 600 x 16 bit color with vsync off. The latest drivers for all boards were used.

3D Performance

The TNT, Rage 128, and Voodoo 2 are in a race too close to call with Quake 2. The advantage goes to the Rage 128 cards for their relatively small performance hit when switching to 32-bit rendering.

In Direct3D testing under Shogo, the numbers are a little more skewed. The TNT and and Rage 128 begin to lag behind the 3dfx cards. Again, the Rage 128 is still plenty fast to play Shogo.