My Retail Parhelia Benchmarks

[pgde]

For the lack of anything else, I used MadOnion's 3DMark 2001. I ended all processes with the Close All feature of End-It-All. Am using the 228 drivers. The attachment is a screen shot of the results. What are others getting? Are there other utilities to use?

P.

[Kruzin]

Something aint right.
I get higher scores with a slower processor and an OEM Parhelia.
Make sure you have vsynch (page flipping), 16xFAA, and aniso off.

[Edward]

This what I got:

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
DirectX Version 8.1

Mobo Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Mobo Model P4T533-C
AGP Rates (Current/Available) 4x / 1x 2x 4x

CPU Intel Pentium 4 2592 MHz
FSB 144 MHz
Memory 512 MB

Graphics Chipset Generic VGA
Driver Name Matrox Parhelia 128MB - English
Driver Version 5, 13, 1, 1017
Video Memory 128 MB

Program Version 3DMark2001 SE
Resolution 1024x768 32bit
Texture Format Compressed
FSAA Disabled
Z-Buffer Depth 24bit
Frame Buffer Double
Rendering Pipeline D3D Pure Hardware T&L

3DMark Score 7253 3D marks

Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 103.0 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 53.8 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 102.9 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 62.0 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 117.2 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 62.8 FPS
Game 4 Nature 22.6 FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 669.2 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 2192.7 MTexels/s

High Polygon Count (1 light) 22.9 MTriangels/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 10.0 MTriangels/s

Environment Bump Mapping 104.5 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping 71.5 FPS

Vertex Shader 77.6 FPS
Pixel Shader 57.7 FPS
Advanced Pixel Shader 61.8 FPS

Point Sprite 12.7 MSprites/s

Did you do a clean install of WinXP?

[DukeP]

Hmf.
I HOPE something is wrong, these scores are lower than what my Geforce2mx400 is doing.
What resolution where you using? The standard is, as far as i remember, 1024x768x32.

~~DukeP~~

[pgde]

Originally posted by Kruzin
Something aint right.
I get higher scores with a slower processor and an OEM Parhelia.
Make sure you have vsynch (page flipping), 16xFAA, and aniso off.

Something is wrong (I hope!) which is why I posted the following message: http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34411 in Hardware. As I said in there, my whole system feels slower (not to mention the abysmal FPS's I get in FS2k2, the only game I really play).

The attachment is my Parhelia config (running at 1024x768x32) and my system config is my signature. The Parhelia was installed in an original XP Pro install after I removed my G400MAX drivers via Add/Remove Programs.

Any help you can provide would be appreciated!

[Protege]

change 16x aa to when the app needs it. that may speed it up a bit

[Joel]

change 16x aa to when the app needs it

That will make a world of difference where 3DMark is concerned.

Joel

[GT98]

Heres my results with Gigacolor on and FAA X16 set app prefernce. Am I in the right ballpark?

[Agent31]

damn, I wondered why my marks were so low compared to others... I had isotopic filtering maxed out, oops!

[Sinistral]

- I just got the card today. Fresh Format with Fresh Install of Windows and a Nice Fresh Perfectly Working Parhelia . Im very pleased with the Game Performance this card offers. I leave 16xFAA on all the time. And no trouble. Not even in Americas Army. Where i get a very nice playable framerate in 1024*768*32*16xFAA.

Well anyway, heres my irrelevant 3DMark2001 Scores .

This is Normal, no FAA, Texture Filtering and no GigaColour. -

Edit: I ran 3DMark2001 again, with GigaColour, and scored around the same. ? -

[Sinistral]

- And 3DMark2001 ran with 16xFAA only. -

[Sinistral]

- And one last test with 16xFAA, Anisotropic Filtering, with Regular 32-Bit Colour. -

[The PIT]

Cant read those benchmarks????

[MetalCartman]

PIT, do you have IE6?

[The PIT]

Yup.