Strange 3DMark 2000 results?

[Unam]

Here is one for you, I had heard that the new benchmark was really memory intensive. Thought I would try it out myself. See results below.
System in sig at 64MB of RAM at 1024x768@16, 2630 3DMarks, 96 CPU, Heli = 52.2,32.7,9.8, Adven = 60.5,39.9,24.1 with fill rates of 266.9 and 260.6.
System in sig at 64MB of RAM at 800x600@16, 2829 3DMarks, 86 CPU, Heli = 50.5,29.7,9.5, Adven = 79.5,42,24.5 with fill rates of 264.9 and 262.3.
System in sig with 128MB of RAM at 1024x768@16, 2692 3DMarks, 162 CPU, Heli = 54.3,33.4,10.9, Adven = 60.7,40.3,24.6 with fill rates of 268.1 and 265.8.
System in sig with 128MB of RAM at 800x600@16, 2901 3DMarks, 161 CPU, Heli = 53,32.2,10.6, Adven = 79.5,42,24.6 with fill rates of 264.8 and 262.9.
Did you notice that when I switched resolutions down that with the Heli demo the scores actually dropped even though there was minimal changes in the fill rate? I would have expected the scores to rise like they did with the Adven demo. Check out the "CPU" scores, double the "RAM" and you almost double the "CPU" scores? Anybody else?

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Asus P3B-F1, PIII 600B, 128Mb PC133 RAM, 18.2 KA drive, HP CDRW & Travan drive, SB64PCI, Intel EPro+ PnP NIC, G400.


[This message has been edited by Unam (edited 14 December 1999).]

[YankeeeMax]

Hi friend !
i´m going to give you a strait answer...
1)MGA G400 it´s Real 32 Bits Grafic, which means that works damm good with more than 1024x728 32Bits...If you are locking for FPS
try more than 800x600, nothing less.
2)G400 dont work with OPENGL all the time, 90% is Directx 6.1, not Directx7(Gforce or Ati Maxx).
Look !!

My comp. Performance with:
Fic Mvp3 1Mb cache on board
AMD K6-2 450
64+64 PC100 CAS 3 8ns
Matrox Millenium G200 8+8 SGRAM 133/100 MHz
IBM 13.5 GB UDMA ATA 66 7200 Rpm
Samtron 17´ 84MHz refresh 1024x728
Asus CdROM 50x UDMA 7200 Rpm

3D Marks:2329
CPU Marks:5747
Rastrizer score:962
Fill Rate:85.0

[Unam]

Hi YankeeMax,

You posted scores for 3DMark 99, mine look like this;

3Dmarks 5868
CPU 9324
Rasterizer 2539
Fill 253.4

The purpose of my original post was to query if others had similiar results with 3DMark 2000. I can appreciate that the G400 runs better at higher resolutions, my system reports results that seem out of place, one demo shows lower results (Heli), the other (Adven) shows higher results but the fill rate seems unchanged? I would appreciate if you could post 3DMark 2000 results so that I can compare them to mine, thanks!

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Asus P3B-F1, PIII 600B, 128Mb PC133 RAM, 18.2 KA drive, HP CDRW & Travan drive, SB64PCI, Intel EPro+ PnP NIC, G400.

[Unam]

BTW YankeeMax, your system specs show you have 2X64 MB of RAM, just for the heck of it, try testing with only one stick in and report the results, my system reported almost double the CPU scores when I put my second 64 MB stick back in, thanks.

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Asus P3B-F1, PIII 600B, 128Mb PC133 RAM, 18.2 KA drive, HP CDRW & Travan drive, SB64PCI, Intel EPro+ PnP NIC, G400.


[This message has been edited by Unam (edited 15 December 1999).]