GeForce4 MX440 Benchmarks - 16-bit vs 32-bit

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Published on March 18, 2022 9:00:01 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yVwceRDVmk

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♦ Hello my friends, today we’re going to tackle a debate that raged at the beginning of the 2000s, about 16-bit and 32-bit color settings in games!

Is using 16-bit colors way faster? Does using 32-bit colors make the games look way better?

✅ Hardware
→ Motherboard: Abit NF7-S2G
→ CPU: Athlon XP 2600+
→ GPU: GeForce4 MX 440-SE
→ RAM: 2 GB DDR 400

✅ Software
→ Forceware 92.73
→ Windows XP x86 SP2

✅ Games
→ Quake III
→ Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
→ Grand Theft Auto 3
→ Serious Sam: The Second Encounter

✅ Timestamps

0:00 Let's tackle a debate
0:43 The test setup
1:13 Performance results
3:50 What about the quality?
6:22 A lot of problems!
8:04 A half-failed experiment