PC Arena heeft een review gepost van de Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro met 32MB DDR geheugen. Helaas geen overclocking resultaten, wel een zooitje benchmarks van de kaart op een P2-300 en een P3-500.
As you have noticed, the Double Data Rate memory did significantly help along performance. The SDRAM version of the Annihilator only brought in about 75 fps on the 300MHz processor. Also, the performance of the P3-500 matches in TL accelerated benchmarks an Athlon with a Voodoo3 or TNT2 Ultra. We can set to rest, all the Quakers out there will instantly fall in love with this board. I found that even the lowly P2-300 can chug along on a 80 thousand-triangle scene at about 25-30 fps. Currently the fastest CPU in the world, the Athlon, has a lot of trouble doing a scene like that with the intensive lighting effects presented in the demos.The TL engine on the GeForce256 is here to stay; processor bound users need this board more than any other. Let’s say a new game ships, and this game supports TL acceleration but is designed to run on current non-TL accelerated boards. Now, let’s also say that the typical scene has 40 thousand triangles per scene. The P2-300 users are automatically excluded from such a game if they own a Voodoo3 or even the upcoming Voodoo4/5, a P2-300 user is still excluded no matter how high the fillrate of the board is. If a P2-300 was coupled with a GeForce256 based video board, a 40k triangle scene is no sweat, and they can now play this game with ease. In addition, they could play this game at a much higher framerate than that of users on a non-TL accelerated video board.