Low 3DMark Scores?

[Chris Blake]

G400Max
K6III 450
192Mb Ram
GA-5AXr4 Mobo
SBLive!

I get 3DMark scores of around 3000 with this config (nothing overclocked). I have seen people quoting figures of 4000ish for a Max with no OCing.

Is this a low score?

[Maniac]

How should we know? Post your res/color depth etc settings!!

[Joel]

I don't think it is for an AMD based system. On my AMD K6-2/400 with 128MB RAM and the G400 32MB DH OCed to 150/200 MAX speeds I get about 2800 at 800x600x32 bit with 32bit Z-buffer and triple buffering. You've got to realize that the final 3DMark score is only based on the 2 game runs. They take those averages and add them together and multiply by about 50 to get the final score. If you look at some of the other scores and compare them to simularly based Intel systems you will see that the AMD does hold it's own pretty well.

Joel

[This message has been edited by Joel (edited 09-21-1999).]

[carlmeister]

Your score is right on line. It's my feeling that 3Dmark supposed enhancements for 3dmow is pretty much lip service, so the low scores. Thats why I still have a V2 SLI set up in my box, there are still some cards out there still trying to reach 70 @ 1024 x 768 fps mark on QII even on a PIII. God it would be nice if somebody could actually add the those type of optimizations to their drivers. Heres my latest 3dmark with 4.25 drivers:

3DMark Project:
3DMark Build Version: 200
Date: 9/20/99
Time: 6:33:45 PM
Project Name:My Project
Comments:

Project Settings (Template):
Rendering Platform: Internal (Matrox Millennium G400 - English)
Resolution: 800*600
Color Depth: 16-bit Color
CPU Optimization: AMD 3DNow!(tm)
Z-Buffer: 16-bit
Frame Buffer: Triple buffering
Refresh Rate: VSync Off
Looping: Disabled
Texture Format: 16-bit, 4444 RGBA
Run Tests: Once
Title Screen: Shown

Test Results:
3DMark Result : 3,047 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed : 6,148 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score : 2,113 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race: 35.3 FPS
Game 2 - First Person: 26.8 FPS
Fill Rate : 206.4 MTexels/s
Fill Rate With Multi-Texturing : 204.9 MTexels/s
2MB Texture Rendering Speed: 299.2 FPS
4MB Texture Rendering Speed: 234.0 FPS
8MB Texture Rendering Speed: 161.3 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed: 120.1 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed: 74.0 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 3-pass: 88.6 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 2-pass: 113.9 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 1-pass: 182.4 FPS

System:
Windows Version: Windows 4 B, Build 1212
DirectX Version: 4.06.02.0436
Bios Version: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
Bios Date: 12/22/98
Total Physical Memory: 256 MB
Free Physical Memory: 201 MB

Processor:
Processor Type: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
Processor Speed: 450 MHz
Processor Caps: MMX 3DNOW
L1 Cache Size: 64 KB
L2 Cache Size: None

Desktop:
2D Display Adapter Name: Matrox Millennium G400 - English
2D Display Adapter Driver Date: 9- 7-1999
Monitor Name: ViewSonic E771
Monitor Driver Date: 7-31-1997
Desktop Resolution: 800*600
Desktop Color Depth: 16-Bit Color

3D Accelerator:
Name: Matrox Millennium G400 - English
Driver Name: G400DD32.DLL
Driver Version: 4.11.01.1250
Total Video Memory On Card: 32,697 KB
Total Texture Memory: 61,456 KB
Bus: AGP

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Epox MVP3G-M, K6/2-450, 256 meg PC100, G400 SGRAM 32 meg single, Diamond
Monster 3DII 8meg SLI, Ensoniq Audio PCI, WD 6.4 HD, Toshiba 32x, Toshiba 12x SCSI,
Diamond Fireport 20, Yamaha 4x6 CD writer SCSI, Generic NEC2000 network card,
Viewsonic E771 monitor Win95 OSR 2.1.

[carlmeister]

Hey Joel,

Did you ever try run your SDRAM interleave to 4 bank in the bios of your MVP3-G? I actually got a smalll little boost out of it. FYI

[Maniac]

Hmmm, my celery 464 gets about the same cpumarks as the AMD 450 but my 3dmarks are 4100! 3Dnow or 3Dcoming?