MSI N430GT MD1GD3/OC/LP Video Card Review
3DMark Vantage Professional
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3DMark Vantage measures Shader 4.0 (i.e., DirectX 10) performance and supports PhysX, a programming interface developed by Ageia (now part of NVIDIA) to transfer physics calculations from the system CPU to the video card GPU in order to increase performance. Mechanical physics is the basis for calculations about the interaction of objects. For example, if you shoot, what exactly will happen to the object when the bullet hits it? Will it break? Will it move? Will the bullet bounce back? Note that since we are considering only the GPU score provided by this program, physics calculations are not taken into account.
We ran this program at 1920×1080 using two profiles, “Entry” and “Performance.” The results being compared are the “GPU Scores” achieved by each video card.
| 3DMark Vantage – Entry | 1920×1080 | Difference |
| MSI N430GT-MD1GD3/OC/LP | 9015 | |
| Radeon HD 5570 | 8910 | -1% |
| GeForce GT 430 | 8111 | -10% |
| GeForce GT 220 | 4514 | -50% |
| Core i3 530 | 1765 | -80% |
| 3DMark Vantage – Performance | 1920×1080 | Difference |
| MSI N430GT-MD1GD3/OC/LP | 2870 | |
| GeForce GT 430 | 2470 | -14% |
| Radeon HD 5570 | 2390 | -17% |
| GeForce GT 220 | 1006 | -65% |
| Core i3 530 | 423 | -85% |