Jedi Knight II
Jedi Knight II has been around for a fair while, and while based on the 'dated' Quake III engine it still proves itself an adequate test of the motherboard/memory and at higher resolutions it can still stress the video card fairly well. So lets see how the nForce 2 does, with and without IGP enabled.
| |
Minimum Frame Rate |
Average Frame Rate |
Maximum Frame Rate |
| Parhelia NF2 SC: |
73 |
92.33 |
118 |
| Parhelia NF2 DC: |
74 |
93.00 |
118 |
| Parhelia SiS 745: |
67 |
84.43 |
108 |
| GF4MX NF2 SC: |
83 |
105.18 |
135 |
| NF2 IGP DC: |
80 |
100.06 |
117 |
| NF2 IGP SC: |
58 |
67.97 |
78 |
Here we see something interesting, the integrated graphics of the nForce 2 in dual channel mode performs better than that of the Parhelia in any configuration. Though it still loses to the GeForce 4MX by a small amount it does very well, and is very playable at this resolution, even that of the single channel mode is playable. We see the improvements that adding more memory bandwidth and the other enhancements of the nForce 2 chipsets, as the chipset provides a 9-10% improvement over that of the SiS 745 chipset. This benchmark takes a lot of bandwidth and as such we see a 47% increase in frame rate when we feed the chipset twice the bandwidth and 3.2GB/s more than the CPU needs at maximum to the IGP. How though does the chipset perform at 1600, is it still playable or is it as with UT2003?
| |
Minimum Frame Rate |
Average Frame Rate |
Maximum Frame Rate |
| Parhelia NF2 SC: |
64 |
74.54 |
83 |
| Parhelia NF2 DC: |
71 |
80 |
90 |
| Parhelia SiS 745: |
65 |
74.08 |
84 |
| GF4MX NF2 SC: |
68 |
81.82 |
94 |
| NF2 IGP DC: |
40 |
53.32 |
64 |
| NF2 IGP SC: |
24 |
32.98 |
39 |
When we increase the resolution we see the performance of the IGP decrease compared to that of the GeForce 4 MX. Here the MX performs 53% better than the dual channel IGP, and it is also close to and can be considered playable. The differences between the two platforms is small to negligible, and the dual channel result can be considered a minor blip in the results. Overall from the Jedi Knight results bandwidth plays a big part in the performance of the system at 1024 for all video cards and at 1600 for the integrated video of the chipset. But people don't always play games how does the nForce 2 perform compared to the SiS 745 chipset in other applications?
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Chaintech 7NIF2 nForce 2: We take a look at Chaintech's latest nForce 2 implementation, the 7NIF2. The board not only features the nVidia IGP, but it's also based on the Micro-ATX form factor.
