Hardware required for high framerate?

[reece146]

I've been mucking about with my server/wrkstn in the garage the last few nights (had to install/tune xorg) and have come to the conclusion that the ATI RADEON in my machine at work is a piece of sh!te.

The little wrkstn here is a 2GHz P4 with a NV 6200 and it runs in high res (LCD : 1024x768) with everything turned on pretty much no problem. Anistropic filtering needs to be set to 8x instead of 16x but otherwise it is very playable with FPS ~25-35 depending on track and location. glxgears says 1700fps. Think ATI has written their driver to spoof the easy GL benchmarks?

The original machine that started this thread is a dual Pentium D @ 3GHz with a ATI RADEON (x13xx/X16xx). Very disappointing.