Im 2001 Budget Video Roundup auf Ace's Hardware durften sich Vertreter der Radeon VE, der GeForce MX400 sowie der Kyro I und II Klasse in den Disziplinen "3D Gaming in Windows 98", "OS and CPU Platform Comparison" und "2D Performance" beweisen. Einen eindeutigen Sieger gibt es jedoch nicht, da jeder Chip bzw. jede getestete Grafikkarte ihre individuellen Stärken als auch Schwächen hat:
"The Radeon VE has by far the best features/price ratio. Dualhead, DVI and TV out, all the cables and convertors you need, decent 2D and 3D performance; it's all there. However, if you use your machine primarily for gaming, and you are short on cash, it's hard to beat the Guillemot 4000XT, which is an incredible deal for the money and offers excellent 3D gaming performance.
If you can afford to spend a few bucks more, Videologic's Vivid!XS Kyro II offers the best gaming value of all, on the condition that your gaming rig has a strong CPU. To get the best out of this price/performance wonder, you will need to install a small fan on the heatsink and overclock.
The Guillemot 4500 has already a very nice fan, but is quite a bit more expensive than Videologic's offering. The 64 MB onboard RAM makes only a very small difference right now. Most benchmarks showed only a 1-2% advantage.
If you play most of your games in 16 bit (Counterstrike!), then the Gigabyte GV-GF1280RT (MX400) makes a lot of sense. The core overclocks well, but we like to see some 5.5 ns or 5ns DDR SDRAM, so that tweakers can overclock the memory higher than 200 MHz. After all, the MX400 is totally bottlenecked by the bandwidth of the memory in 32-bit color."
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