3DMark2001 out TODAY!

[drzaius]

-Chapel-
what drivers are you using? i've seen some scores go up from 3300 to 3800 (plus a little o/cing) because of new drivers, particularly the 10.** drivers they seem to have something in them that helps.

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Slow people as easy to pass, it's people who drive fast that are hard.

[frankymail]

I've got a 4750 3DMarks 2001 score using a Celeron 600@900 256 MB and a GeForce 3... see the GLMarks topic in the Benchmarks forum http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum13/HTML/000019.html

...Anyone jealous???

Yet, I would trade it in an instant for a G800...

Working like a small Ant, kissing like a squid and fragging like a King,
Francis Beausejour


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What was necessary was done yesterday;
We're currently working on the impossible;
For miracles, we ask for a 24 hours notice ...

[mirp]

Here is something about KYRO and 3DMark2001. Looks like it cannot use textures due to a bug in DX8. I think that means we won't see any results from KYRO (I+II) until MS have fixed that bug.

[Sorry, only demo is affected. (??)]

[This message has been edited by mirp (edited 15 March 2001).]

[SteveC]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by -Chapel-:
Hey Guys,

Where did you get that chart?
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I made it last night...


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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Six Of One]

Obviously something beyond CPU speed and graphicsboard is influencing the benchmark.

I have run this just for fun on default settings on my Athlon Classic (Slot A) 600@690/128MB on an Epox 7KXA (Via 4in1 4.29) and a non-o/c'ed G400 SH 16MB (PD6.50/Win98SE/DX8a) forced to AGP 1x and diabled AGP Fast Write with my mail client, firewall and browser running, downloading the new full install for CS1.1 anf thought i might risk a look. I got 1261 points. Two times.

Then i read about TNT2 Ultras getting 900 and something at 3dcenter.de. Now i read of G400Maxs getting around the same score as i do on much more powerfull machines. I seriously wonder what is causing such erratic benchmark results. Any ideas?

Regards

[fds]

Dual Pentium III 667 MHz, 512 MB
Windows 2000 SP1 DX8

ASUS V7700 Deluxe (GF2 GTS)
ASUS 6.49 drivers
2092 3DMarks

Matrox G400 MAX
5.31 drivers
1111 3DMarks

Both using the default settings (complains about no texture compression on the G400 though).

Both skipped the Game4 nature test. EMBM run only on the G400, DOT3 run only on the GF2.

Seems to be 3DMark 2001 is now heavily biased for ATI Radeons. Nice for a change from MadOnion.

So is the Radeon still performing very badly under Win2k?

[Nuno]

It seems so. Judging from Rags post, it performs just as fine as a G400

[fleabus2]

Hi:

RESULTS

3DMark Score 1385

Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 23.7 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 8.3 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 18.3 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 7.4 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 32.0 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 16.6 fps
Game 4 - Nature Not supported by hardware
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 137.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 171.5 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 2.2 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 1.1 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 21.2 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping Not supported by hardware
Vertex Shader 12.8 fps
Pixel Shader Not supported by hardware
Point Sprites 0.7 MSprites/s

D3D Software T&L
Width 1024
Height 768
Depth 32 bit
Z-Buffering 32 bit
Texture Format 32 bit
Buffering Double
Refresh Rate Default
FSAA Mode None

Win98SE clean
PIII 800E slot1
512MB PC 133 @ 100MHz CAS2
Asus P3B-F i440BX ACPI bios 1005
Matrox G400Max DualHead
Bios v1.9; PD 6.23
Aperture size 256MB
AGP Status: X2
DirectX 8.0a
Desktop at test: 1024x768x32bit 85Hz DualHead disabled

Nothing over clocked or tweaked.

[RAB]

Only 570

G400 Vanilla 6.50 drivers
AMD K6-3 450
256 megs
Win 98 SE with DX 8.0

I know its an old CPU, but this is not good. Ever since the 6.x drivers came out, I've been getting lower and lower scores on benchmarks. Did Matrox stop supporting the MVP3 chipset with the 6.x series drivers?

I've got a K6-3+ 550 with a Radeon 32 DDR that I'll test later. But its drivers are terrible on an MVP3 also. Older games that used to run smooth are now jerky. Somethings not right and its either recent drivers or DX8 just suck on MVP3 chipsets. They were getting pretty good with older drivers and DX7 but have gone downhill on both my Matrox g400 and my Radeon 32 DDR with newer drivers and DX8.

What gives?

RAB

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[mirp]

RESULTS

3DMark Score 1595

Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 29.2 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 10.7 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 22.3 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 9.1 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 32.7 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 18.0 fps
Game 4 - Nature Not supported by hardware
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 132.2 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 164.5 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 3.0 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 1.5 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 23.1 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping Not supported by hardware
Vertex Shader 18.9 fps
Pixel Shader Not supported by hardware
Point Sprites 0.8 MSprites/s

D3D Software T&L
Width 1024
Height 768
Depth 32 bit
Z-Buffering 32 bit
Texture Format 32 bit
Buffering Double
Refresh Rate Default
FSAA Mode None

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ASUS P2B-B rev. 1.02, Intel Pentium III 700@933 MHz, Micron 256MB PC133-222, Enermax EG351P-VE, Western Digital WD450AA, Toshiba SD-M1212, Matrox G400 SH 32MB 142/189, PowerDesk 6.50, CTX VL950T, Creative SBLive!, Windows 98, IE 5.00, DirectX 8.0

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[Novdid]

I have 424 3dmarks.

AMD K6-2 450
RIVA TNT 115/120.

[Topha]

Project Name My Benchmark

Operating System Microsoft Windows ME
DirectX Version 8.00

Mobo Manufacturer ASUSteK Computer INC.
Mobo Model K7M

CPU AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 788 Mhz
FSB 105 MHz

3D Accelerator Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead MAX - English
Graphics Chipset Matrox G400 MAX
Driver Version 4.12.01.1800
Video Memory 32 MB

Resolution 1024x768 32bit
Texture Format 32bit
FSAA Disabled
Z-Buffer Depth 32bit
Frame Buffer Double
Rendering Pipeline D3D Software T&L



3DMark Result 1514 3D marks

Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 24.2 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 8.0 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 23.1 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 9.1 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 34.2 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 17.9 FPS
Game 4 Nature N/A FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 142.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 177.0 MTexels/s

High Polygon Count (1 light) 2.9 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 1.4 MTriangles/s

Environment Bump Mapping 23.6 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping N/A FPS

Vertex Shader Speed 16.7 FPS
Pixel Shader Speed N/A FPS
Point Sprite Speed 1.2 MSprites/s

[Tempest]

Default Benchmark + Athlon 850 + 256 MB + G400 MAX + Windows 2000 SP2rc2 = 1359 3DMarks

[Timeripper]

Arrrrggggghhhh,

Celleron 500
G400 DH

3D marks
553 @ 640x480
549 @ 1024x768
492 @ 1280x1024
400 @ 1600x1200

So it looks like it is very heavy on the CPU. The frames rate almost did no decline when I switched from 640x480 to 1600x1200. Only the EMB and the hall shooting did decline. So it looks like it that my CPU is the bottle neck for the other tests.

The reason for this is probably that DX8 has to calculate stuff that is not done in hardware.

So it looks like I need a new CPU. Which will come in another month (I hope).

Regards,
Timeripper.

[Topha]

hey timeripper, its the same here, it actually seems slower at 640x480 than it does at standard settings, and i have a 750 athlon.