Is Final Reality 1.01 good for anything anymore?

[jediphoenix]

I use 3dmark99 full to benchmark but I was wondering if it was still useful to use FR 1.01. And also what exactly was the agp benchmark on it supposed to tell you? I ran mine on my k6-2 450 128 sdram g400 32 SH oem with max heatsink/5ns sgram and got an agp score of 88. Is that good? Agp2x and busmastering are on.



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[Alfie]

Past it on benchmarking,but cool for system testing and checking out stability of system.
Especially on new install or upgrade.
The agp test,just showed speed of agp and stability.(once again,cool for testing)

[jediphoenix]

ok so the score of 88 tells you nothing other than agp is working???

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[Kruzin]

An AGP score of 88 doesn't mean anything, unless you tell us WHICH AGP test you ran. If that was the 32meg test, yes...that's a decent score. If it was the 4 meg test, that sucks.

[jediphoenix]

actually its was the 16 meg test so whats the scoop? ps thanks guys for lending a hand to my obviously stupid question

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[Kruzin]

If this is the AGP test in FR, I don't remember if that's a good number or not.

It also matters what res/color depth you ran the test in, and 16 or 32 bit z-buffer (both in the software, and in the drivers).

Run the tests in 3dMark99max. And compare those.

For reference, at 800x600x16x16zxtriple buffer, I got 145.1 in the 16meg test, and 82.2 in the 32meg test.

(running 2x AGP without forcing it)

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[jediphoenix]

damn kruzin I ran the same settings as you I think, why did I get such a low score ACK! is AGP on socket 7 systems that bad?

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[Kruzin]

I don't have a SS7 to compare to...but if that was your score with the same settings, in 3DMark, not FR, something doesn't sound right. The 16meg AGP test on a 32 meg card will not even use AGP. At 16meg, all of the textures will fit on the card's memory...

But I'd find someone with a similar system to compare with before comparing apples and oranges

[jediphoenix]

Kruzin sorry that was my numbers from FR 1.01 not 3dmark. on the 16 meg in 3dmark I get 113.8, which still does not sound that great

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[Easty]

Why Do I get the exact same results ..82-32mb 146-16mb ..on a 650 athlon.. is my girl running slow..

All the newest drvs.. agp natural X2

Total = 4816mrks

Or is it just the restriction of 3Dmark.. Inoticed the FPS looks a little maxed out!!



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[Himself]

MadOnion2000 will be out on Dec 6, so they say. Just got a wallpaper in email from them for entering their silly name that bitch contest.

I always thought FR looked better than 3dmark myself, it was just useless as a benchmark, I mean grabbing the cpu MHz and dividing my 100 is no great trick.

[Joel]

The following are my results using 3DMark99 Max:

Rendering Platform Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead - English
Resolution 800*600
Color Depth 16-bit Color
Frame Buffer Triple buffering
Refresh Rate VSync Off
CPU Optimization AMD 3DNow!(tm)
3DMark Result 3061.28 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 6288.24 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score 2408.22 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race 35.89 FPS
Game 2 - First Person 26.69 FPS
Fill Rate 243.20 MTexels/s
Fill Rate With Multi-Texturing 235.79 MTexels/s
2MB Texture Rendering Speed 315.88 FPS
4MB Texture Rendering Speed 253.67 FPS
8MB Texture Rendering Speed 173.54 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed 126.82 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed 64.28 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 3-pass 90.01 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 2-pass 117.02 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 1-pass 168.54 FPS
Point Sample Texture Filtering Speed 110.32 %
Bilinear Texture Filtering Speed 100.00 %
Trilinear Texture Filtering Speed 66.50 %
Anisotropic Texture Filtering Speed 0.00 %
6 Pixel/individual 652.98 KPolygons/s
6 Pixel/strips 2332.00 KPolygons/s
25 Pixel/individual 664.94 KPolygons/s
25 Pixel/strips 1843.23 KPolygons/s
50 Pixel/individual 761.63 KPolygons/s
50 Pixel/strips 1341.65 KPolygons/s
250 Pixel/individual 419.44 KPolygons/s
250 Pixel/strips 541.68 KPolygons/s
1000 Pixel/individual 155.14 KPolygons/s
1000 Pixel/strips 187.25 KPolygons/s

Processor Type AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
Processor Speed 500 MHz
L1 Cache size 64 KB
L2 Cache size None
Physical Memory 128 MB



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[jediphoenix]

ok here are mine, anyone see anything strange or wrong?Test My Project
Rendering Platform Matrox Millennium G400 - English
Resolution 800*600
Color Depth 16-bit Color
Frame Buffer Triple buffering
Refresh Rate VSync Off
CPU Optimization AMD 3DNow!(tm)
3DMark Result 3232.68 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 6243.87 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score 2051.79 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race 35.96 FPS
Game 2 - First Person 29.36 FPS
Fill Rate 205.54 MTexels/s
Fill Rate With Multi-Texturing 199.21 MTexels/s
2MB Texture Rendering Speed 271.18 FPS
4MB Texture Rendering Speed 215.41 FPS
8MB Texture Rendering Speed 151.70 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed 113.79 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed 65.63 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 3-pass 82.00 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 2-pass 105.84 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 1-pass 174.24 FPS
Point Sample Texture Filtering Speed 110.22 %
Bilinear Texture Filtering Speed 100.00 %
Trilinear Texture Filtering Speed 69.31 %
Anisotropic Texture Filtering Speed 0.00 %
6 Pixel/individual 721.29 KPolygons/s
6 Pixel/strips 1690.27 KPolygons/s
25 Pixel/individual 648.56 KPolygons/s
25 Pixel/strips 1454.71 KPolygons/s
50 Pixel/individual 587.60 KPolygons/s
50 Pixel/strips 1167.17 KPolygons/s
250 Pixel/individual 341.20 KPolygons/s
250 Pixel/strips 485.76 KPolygons/s
1000 Pixel/individual 136.34 KPolygons/s
1000 Pixel/strips 164.22 KPolygons/s
Processor Type AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
Processor Speed 450 MHz
L1 Cache size 64 KB
L2 Cache size None
Physical Memory 128 MB



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[Himself]

I get 41/30 in the 3DMark99Max game tests with a plain G400 and a K6-3 450. That's with overclocking and without. With a TNT 1 and a K6-2 400 I was getting 30/26.

[jediphoenix]

why am I getting such high cpumarks but low frames???

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