Matrox Millennium G200

The Slot-1 Pentium II Test System AnandTech used was configured as follows:

• Intel Pentium II 400 on an ABIT BX6 Motherboard

• 64MB PC100 SDRAM

• Western Digital 5.1GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive

• AOpen 32X IDE CD-ROM Drive

• Windows 98 with all of the latest patches/drivers installed

The benchmark suite consisted of the following full version game titles

• Forsaken - Running the Nuke Demo

• Turok Dinosaur Hunter run with the '-benchmark' option

• Quake 2 v3.14 using Demo1.dm2 and Brett "3 Fingers" Jacobs Crusher.dm2 demo

Ziff Davis' Winbench 98 was also used to test 2D performance

VSYNC was disabled during AnandTech's tests and was done so by using the following procedure:

Using the Windows 98 Registry Editor click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then Software, then Matrox, then Current Settings and add the following string value with a value of 0 (use a value of 1 to enable VSync): Flip On Vblank

Thanks to Craig from Cyrellis for pointing that out to me.

The performance difference between the Millennium G200 and the Mystique G200 is negligible, which would make re-running every single test that was used in the Mystique G200 Review redundant.  For more benchmarks visit the AnandTech Mystique G200 Review.  The purpose of this performance comparison is to illustrate the performance difference between the Millennium and Mystique G200 cards.

If you don't mind giving up the TV-Output feature, the Millennium G200 is basically a Mystique G200 with a couple extra performance percentage points under the hood.  The main differences between the two cards seem to exist at higher resolutions, as the Timedemo scores at 1024 x 768 differ by around 1 - 2 fps, while that doesn't seem like much, considering that the Millennium G200 is the same price as the Mystique G200, it's like getting those 1 - 2 fps free of charge.  If you're not going to use the TV-Output, then why not benefit from the performance increase?

Triple Buffering seems very promising on paper, let's just wait for some more gaming support before jumping on that 16MB bandwagon just yet.

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