ATi RADEON - The Empire strikes back (11/15) Benchmarks - 3DMark 2000
MadOnion.com’s synthetic 3DMark2000 is heavily optimized for T&L. All of the Voodoo 5’s fillrate can’t make up for the lack of a T&L unit here.
Once again, we see the RADEON’s characteristic 16bit stumble. In 1280x1024, even the T&L-less V5 gets similar scores to the RADEON – not a good sign for ATi. Once we switch over to 32bit, we get the same familiar picture, with the RADEON leaving the GF2 32 MB behind once it hits 1280. The 3D Prophet II 64 is still out of reach, but not by much. The Voodoo 5 trails the rest by a wide margin in 32 bit.
The K7 system produces similar results.
The GHz box gives the GF2 boards the performance boost needed to stay comfortably ahead of the RADEON again, as seen in the 1024x786 – 32 results. This time the RADEON can’t take the 32MB GF2. The performance differences are marginal, though. 3DMark reaffirms our observation that the RADEON’s 16bit performance is still somewhat lacking. This leaves us with two possible conclusions: Either there’s a major bug in the current driver release, or ATi is doing something different than the other chipmakers. Still, the 32bit performance is very good. |
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Station 2000 - Lars Weinand Translation by Benjamin Kraft URL of this Article: www.rivastation.com/radeon64_e.htm - If you want to link to it, please use this URL! :-) |
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