Matrox G450 (4/8) 2D Benchmarks Now let’s get down to the performance testing – starting with 2D benchmarks, for a change. The benchmark of choice for this kind of testing is Bapco Sysmark 2000. It consists of several applications and is meant to determine a systems real-world performance. The following applications were tested:
Here are the unofficial results of this test. (I am required to label these as unofficial, because a number of requirements need to be met to call them "official". This would have been overkill for our purposes, so to speak, and doesn’t change or influence the achieved results in any way.) Bapco Sysmark 2000
Overall there isn’t all that much difference, really. I was a little surprised to see the NVIDIA cards inch ahead with Bryce 4 - and then fall behind with Netscape Communicator. All these cards perform pretty much equally, with just minimum spread, which is to be expected from modern video cards. Speedy
While digging around for useful 2D benchmarks, I rediscovered the aged Speedy benchmark, which was part of the dated Wintach v1.2.
These results seem to be way off base. Either Matrox’s drivers have a major bug, or Speedy can’t correctly initialise NVIDIA’s. This brings back memories of the days of 2D benchmark cheating, when a company would "optimise" or "accelerate" one particular function artificially to look good on a result sheet. Well, for the sake of completeness I decided to include even these funky results. Nonetheless, these scores seem pretty unrealistic. |
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