Updated 4.36 4in1's

[Indiana]

If you want to compare the score to NVidia cards, there's an easy way to get higher scores without ANY oc'ing.
Just click the "change" button in 3DMarks main window, in the window that opens change the ZBuffer Depth from 32Bit to 24Bit. This is only fair since ALL NVidia benches I've seen up to now were done with only 24Bit ZBuffer as well (I guess NVidia is setting this in the drivers).

[The Rock]

Indiana:

Z-buffer was set to 24bit already (I was running that default 3DM2001 benchmark). After maxing out my DDR memory timings, score is up to 8041 now. Nvidiots here I come.

Bart

[Indiana]

Originally posted by The Rock
Z-buffer was set to 24bit already (I was running that default 3DM2001 benchmark)

Unfortunately it's not that easy. The "default " benchmark uses 32 Bit ZBuffer when available. When this is turned off in the drivers (as it is in NVidia ones and apparently in the ATI ones too - I'm using the Omegadrive ones and they have the registry-settings set more towards Image-Quality than speed) it uses the 24Bit ZBuffer without complaining or even noticing the user about this - even though it does affect the final score quite a bit. I wonder how many reviewers get this right....

After maxing out my DDR memory timings, score is up to 8041 now.

Fine. This increase in your score due to simple tweaing of DDR timings is not surprising, because 3DMark2001 is heavily dependent on bus-speeds and RAM throughput - hence the good results for i850 based P-IV systems at the beginning.

[The Rock]

Indiana:

I should have clarifed further. I don't have the 32bit Z-buffer enabled in the driver options; only 16 & 24.

Bart