GTX470 Performance Test Part 1: Windows XP
8xS & 16xS
Fortunately the combined mode super-sampling modes are still present in the driver, so I’ll test them in these classic titles.
Aside from the good performance gain in Half-Life 2, the GTX470 is absolutely woeful compared to the GTX285. It’s at best equal, and at worst 30.36% slower.
Surely this is a driver issue. As gamers we want to play our old games as well as our new one’s.
Part of the fun of upgrading is that we get to see an FPS boost in our old games.
Tesselation is all well and good, but no-body is using it yet and I hope there is a higher take up of DX11 than there was of DX10.
Gearing a card for the future is all well and good but predicting the future isn’t exactly an exact science!
I agree completely. Fortunately I’ve seen this issue many times before, and the good news is that driver improvements can fix things.
The GTX285 has “gold standard” driver performance, so it’s tough for any new release driver to compete with it initially.
What will be really interesting is how Windows 7 compares.
To the above – but the GTX470 performs well on Windows 7. It seems that nVidia have rightfully given up on xp.
We’ll see about that, Bakes.
Windows 7 might not change things at all because I don’t benchmark like the standard fare. I use far more games, along with unorthodox gaming settings compared to regular reviews.
As always, outstanding job BFG10K.
Any “early leaks” from the Win7 results? 😉
Yeah, so far Windows 7 is behaving differently in some of the games.
It seems that many of the older games are so dependent on the TMU muscle for performance.
After looking at the “Part 2” Win7 comparison, I see that Prey, Doom 3, and Far Cry 2 perform so much better but UT2004, one of my favorites, performs considerably worse (maybe after Nvidia fixed it thanks to you pointing out the stuttering issue on Vista a while ago, so it’s still a driver problem?). Overall, Win7 is much better though (except for a few unrelated sound issues).
thanks, great article!
The Unreal 2 engine stuttering was only present on XP, and was later fixed. I don’t think the low UT2004 performance is related in any way, but rather the problem is specific to the GF100, on both OSes.