Hercules 3D Prophet DDR DVI - 03/08/00
by: Johan Bengtsson

Tests:

The tests at 1024x768 ran on a Celeron 300A @ 450 MHz with 128MB PC100 RAM. Both graphic cards was tested with the latest drivers that was avalible ( 05/01/99 ).

Test Resolution 1024x768 16bit	3D Prophet DDR DVI	Voodoo 3 3000
3DMark Result	3303 3D marks	1529 3D marks
CPU Speed	185 CPU 3D marks	84 CPU 3D marks
Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail	61.3 FPS	34.0 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail	44.0 FPS	20.4 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail	19.6 FPS	8.3 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail	86.7 FPS	36.4 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail	39.9 FPS	18.2 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail	23.6 FPS	10.2 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing)	433.4 MTexels/s	151.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing)	513.5 MTexels/s	267.1 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light)	7470 KTriangles/s	1056 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (4 Lights)	3683 KTriangles/s	729 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights)	1919 KTriangles/s	535 KTriangles/s
8MB Texture Rendering Speed	298.4 FPS	84.8 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed	175.9 FPS	83.7 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed	95.9 FPS	56.0 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 3-pass)	121.9 FPS	84.8 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 2-pass)	175.7 FPS	85.0 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 1-pass)	313.1 FPS	Not supported

As we easy can see when looking at the 1024x768 test results the Hercules 3D Prophet DDR DVI is much better than the 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 at everything. Nothing else was expected either.

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