Ook Thresh's Firingsquad heeft wat benchmarks met de nieuwe nVidia Detonator drivers bij elkaar gegooid. Net zoals bij de benchmarks van AGN Hardware laat vooral 3DMark99 een groot verschil zien. Firingsuquad heeft de nieuwe drivers ook op een PIII getest, maar die toont bar weinig verschil met de performance op een PII:
n 3DMark as well, there is no perceivable performance difference from moving to the new drivers on a P3 vs. a P2. With KNI optimizations, you would expect the P3 to experience a greater percentage gain, roughly 15-25% higher than that of an equivalent P2. However, seeing that this is not the case, two possibilities present themselves. One, the new drivers do not take advantage of KNI, or two, 3DMark's execution time is not holed up in the display driver, reducing the impact of such optimizations. There's also a question of support for KNI in the operating system, which was supposed to be implemented in DirectX6.1. Again, if anyone finds significant performance gains on a P3 as opposed to a P2, please let us know.
