3DMark2001 out TODAY!

[Maggi]

3DMark2001 out TODAY!

http://gamershq.madonion.com/3dmark2001/

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Well, I think the topic says it all! The long awaited new benchmarking software 3DMark2001 will be released today (2001-03-13)! The exact time will be announced a bit later.

We will keep updating the 3DMark2001 Confidential Page with the latest news and stuff the whole day, so keep reloading! </font>

[xortam]

I just noticed that it has a requirement of DX 8.0. Tell me it ain't so! I downloaded DX8 when it was released but thankfully never installed it (running Win98). Aren't people still having tons of trouble with DX8 on Win98? Has there been some patches released or some procedures announced to stabilize it?

[SteveC]

Well - whoppee I get a massive score of 1060 on my G400 (non MAX under win2k). I must say though that it looks FANTASTIC! Especially the floors in the matrix scene and the EMBM test! Off to try the demo now.

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Cheers,
Steve

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

[SteveC]

One word for that demo, Joel - WOW!! That is just dying to be played on a huge screen with a massive sound system!

Xortam - I've never had a problem with DirectX 8 (apart from it may be a minute amount slower than dx7)

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Cheers,
Steve

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

[alessandro]

It seems that this benchmark is made for just one card.......GF3

I'm getting 3039 3DMarks with my Radeon 32Mb DDR 190Mhz/190Mhz o/c.
I'l try my MAX to see what i get.

By the way the 'minimum'for the 3DMark 2001 is a 500mhz cpu with the recommended to 1ghz and get this... 192Mb RAM if you run Win2K?????????


[This message has been edited by alessandro (edited 14 March 2001).]

[xortam]

Well if this version requires DX8 it will just have to wait until I finish up my other benches. I've got too much time invested in my current testing to change things now. Seems there's something new released every week that can affect your system performance. It would be a full time job to quantify every system change.

[Ultramar]

My score:

Intel Pentium III 750
ASUS CUBX
256 MB RAM
Matrox Millennium G400 MAX
Windows 2000 Professional
DirectX 8.0
5.33 Drivers

D3D Software T&L
1024x768
Depth: 32 bit
Z-Buffering: 32 bit
Texture Format: 32 bit
Buffering: Double

3DMark Score: 1291

Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail - 21.1 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail - 7.4 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail - 17.2 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail - 6.9 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail - 30.6 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail - 15.9 fps
Game 4 - Nature - Not supported by hardware
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) - 129.1 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) - 164.3 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) - 2.2 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) - 1.1 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping - 21.3 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping - Not supported by hardware
Vertex Shader - 12.7 fps
Pixel Shader - Not supported by hardware
Point Sprites - 0.7 MSprites/s

[This message has been edited by Ultramar (edited 14 March 2001).]

[Greebe]

RESULTS
3DMark Score 1438
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 23.2 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 8.1 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 22.2 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 8.8 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 31.4 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 16.6 fps
Game 4 - Nature Not supported by hardware
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 126.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 161.6 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 2.8 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 1.0 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 17.9 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping Not supported by hardware
Vertex Shader 18.4 fps
Pixel Shader Not supported by hardware
Point Sprites 1.1 MSprites/s

System:
Athlon500@850
G400Max (@default res for benchmark)
256 meg "7E" mem

Overall I rate this game a yawn

[rylan]

Yeah, its kinda too bad that the entire program pretty much _crawls_ on an overclocked G400MAX... I'm afraid to see how poorly a G450 would perform.

That demo would look SWEET in 1024x768x32 or higher, but I don't like watching slideshows very much :P

[isochar]

It's not just a G400max that's slow...

I'm running it on this:
Thunderbird 1200@266
Asus A7V133 (Bios 1004, VIA AGP GART 4.29)
384mb Crucial PC133 CL2
Annihilator 2 GTS (Detonator 6.50)

Most of the benchmarks bring this setup to its knees (Can't imagine what would happen I threw my G400max in there )

I'd post my scores, but 3dmark crashes on the 2nd game. It needs all the games to run before it'll calculate the scores.

Seems there are a few people experiencing this bug on AMD systems:
http://www.sharkyforums.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/004238.html

[Helevitia]

Well I get 2910 on my Radeon 32MB DDR AIW.

I have:
Asus A7V w/ TB 700@900
256MB PC133 Mushkin rev. 2
Win98SE

Dave

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What if the Hokey Pokey is what it's all about?

[Rags]

3020 on my Radeon 64MB DDR.

Rags

[SuRGV]

Darn.. I get only 2465 with V7700 (GF3 GTS 32 MB), P3 600@800 MHZ, 192 MB (just enough), Win 2000 SP1, DX 8.a.
BTW. I'm using 6.50 driver. Will try 7.52 to see if it's different.
Anyone with GF2 GTS 32 MB here put your scores please..
Trung.

[Greebe]

you mean 2 not 3

[Topha]

getting 1496
athlon 750 @ 800 (only overclocked fsb)
128 ram
g400 max
asus k7m

im almost disappointed, i would have expected better animations for the matrix scene