New Parhelia Drivers!

[K6-III]

Originally posted by JaG
Which one 7 or 6.1.2 ?

7

[JaG]

What's about 7.1?

Some seconds after my last post I've been at spec.org and found the new 7.1 bench. So I upgraded the 7.0 bench et voilà:

These are the results:

3dsmax-02 Weighted Geometric Mean = 8.921
drv-09 Weighted Geometric Mean = 17.69
dx-08 Weighted Geometric Mean = 44.35
light-06 Weighted Geometric Mean = 9.136
proe-02 Weighted Geometric Mean = 4.503
ugs-03 Weighted Geometric Mean = 5.989

(active GigaColor, FAA-16x on demand, texture filtering & VSync depend on application, active OpenGL overlay feature, processor is Pentium4 2.66 GHz, i845GBVL board, 512 MB DDR refreshs:2225, Parhelia 128R at std. 220/275 MHz, driver 1.04.078, Win2ksp3)

The last time I used version 7 was long ago. So it's no good compare but I would say that the performance increasements are impressive!

[chr_79]

Originally posted by JaG
What's about 7.1?

Some seconds after my last post I've been at spec.org and found the new 7.1 bench. So I upgraded the 7.0 bench et voilà:

These are the results:

3dsmax-02 Weighted Geometric Mean = 8.921
drv-09 Weighted Geometric Mean = 17.69
dx-08 Weighted Geometric Mean = 44.35
light-06 Weighted Geometric Mean = 9.136
proe-02 Weighted Geometric Mean = 4.503
ugs-03 Weighted Geometric Mean = 5.989

(active GigaColor, FAA-16x on demand, texture filtering & VSync depend on application, active OpenGL overlay feature, processor is Pentium4 2.66 GHz, i845GBVL board, 512 MB DDR refreshs:2225, Parhelia 128R at std. 220/275 MHz, driver 1.04.078, Win2ksp3)

The last time I used version 7 was long ago. So it's no good compare but I would say that the performance increasements are impressive!

I get really really lower result
my previous bench with spec viewperf with drviers 1.02 was really better

3dsmax-02 Weighted Geometric Mean = 3.212
Drv-09 Weighted Geometric Mean = 5.006
dx-08 Weighted Geometric Mean = 24.00
light-06 Weighted Geometric Mean = 2.511
proe-02 Weighted Geometric Mean = 1.833
ugs-03 Weighted Geometric Mean = 1.128


3dmax-02 detail :3dsmax-02 Viewset
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Test Weight Frames DLB Visual Double Frame Buffer Depth Stencil
# Per Sec Sec ID Buffer Red Green Blue Alpha Buffer Buffer
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 5.50 1.32 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
2 5.50 1.45 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
3 5.50 3.61 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
4 5.50 3.48 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
5 17.00 5.61 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
6 5.50 2.91 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
7 5.50 2.90 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
8 5.50 4.47 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
9 5.50 4.05 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
10 17.00 5.24 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
11 5.50 1.29 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
12 5.50 1.29 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
13 5.50 2.77 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
14 5.50 2.80 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3dsmax-02 Weighted Geometric Mean = 3.212

(no Giga color, FAA-16 on demand, texture filtering & VSync depend on application, OpenGL overlay disabled, processor P4 2.26@2.3Ghz, i845G, 512Mb DDR, P128 Retail, WinXP+SP1, drivers 1.04.078)

[TdB]

I have heard that viewperf likes a very high agp aperture setting, perhaps that is the problem with your results.

[JaG]

Well, maybe TDB is right. I use 256 MB agp aperture size.

Maybe you should try it with active OpenGL overlay, too.

These are my 3ds max details:

3dsmax-02 Viewset
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Test Weight Frames DLB Visual Double Frame Buffer Depth Stencil
# Per Sec Sec ID Buffer Red Green Blue Alpha Buffer Buffer
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 5.50 8.50 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
2 5.50 7.60 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
3 5.50 6.11 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
4 5.50 4.58 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
5 17.00 17.9 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
6 5.50 11.1 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
7 5.50 7.88 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
8 5.50 6.11 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
9 5.50 4.10 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
10 17.00 16.7 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
11 5.50 7.19 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
12 5.50 6.88 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
13 5.50 5.25 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
14 5.50 4.13 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3dsmax-02 Weighted Geometric Mean = 8.921

[JaG]

Ok, it's not the overlay...

Just got that result without it:
3dsmax-02 Weighted Geometric Mean = 8.964

There seems to be no difference over normal tolerance in this case.

[chr_79]

It's the agp aperture size
now, my 3dmax detailed result :
3dsmax-02 Viewset
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Test Weight Frames DLB Visual Double Frame Buffer Depth Stencil
# Per Sec Sec ID Buffer Red Green Blue Alpha Buffer Buffer
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 5.50 6.84 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
2 5.50 6.99 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
3 5.50 6.16 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
4 5.50 4.62 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
5 17.00 18.1 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
6 5.50 10.9 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
7 5.50 8.04 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
8 5.50 6.20 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
9 5.50 4.14 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
10 17.00 17.3 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
11 5.50 6.84 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
12 5.50 6.67 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
13 5.50 5.22 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
14 5.50 4.20 N/A 3 True 8 8 8 8 24 8
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3dsmax-02 Weighted Geometric Mean = 8.831

[JaG]

[chr_79]

After few minutes, my new results :

3dsmax-02 Weighted Geometric Mean = 8.969
drv-09 Weighted Geometric Mean = 18.21
dx-08 Weighted Geometric Mean = 45.87
light-06 Weighted Geometric Mean = 9.320
proe-02 Weighted Geometric Mean = 4.528
ugs-03 Weighted Geometric Mean = 6.147

Not so bad

[Chrono_Wanderer]

w00t. @chr_79: Huge jump

[JaG]

No, no not so bad. - Hey, I'm beaten!

[chr_79]

Other OpenGL bench : GLeXess :

Drivers 1.02.42 : 4275 XSMarks
(5760, 2682, 3210, 3631)

New Drivers 1.04.77 : 5306 XSMarks
(5871, 6051, 3183, 4079)


A really big jump for scene 6 from 82 to 142 fps
An incredible jump for scene 3 from 71 to 222 fps

[bsdgeek]

Wow they were really concentrating on that OpenGL!

[Haig]

Release notes are up:

ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/2kxp/2003/2kxp_104_00_078notes.txt

[WyWyWyWy]

Thanks Haig!

- Fixed corruption in 3dmark 2003

Oh I didn't notice that... guess I wasn't paying attention

- Fixed problem in Rightmark where the girl's eyes are popping out

Has anyone not seen this yet? It was really terrible