[swaaye]

I have 98 dual boot set up. I recalled the total joy of 3dmark99 from yesteryear and took a moment to test it on my A64 3000+/9600 notebook (440/225 clock).

Set it to 1024x768x32 instead of the default 800x600x16, seemed like the right thing to do (Love the CPU score)

It went zoom.

Test My Project
Rendering Platform RADEON 9600 SERIES
Resolution 1024*768
Color Depth 32-bit Color
Frame Buffer Triple buffering
Refresh Rate VSync Off
CPU Optimization AMD 3DNow!(tm)
3DMark Result 12312.88 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 40996.37 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score 11042.86 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race 127.15 FPS
Game 2 - First Person 119.36 FPS
Fill Rate 614.57 MTexels/s
Fill Rate With Multi-Texturing 1595.39 MTexels/s
2MB Texture Rendering Speed 780.16 FPS
4MB Texture Rendering Speed 608.62 FPS
8MB Texture Rendering Speed 487.53 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed 378.80 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed 344.46 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 3-pass 272.63 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 2-pass 306.38 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 1-pass 541.23 FPS
Point Sample Texture Filtering Speed 103.34 %
Bilinear Texture Filtering Speed 100.00 %
Trilinear Texture Filtering Speed 87.62 %
Anisotropic Texture Filtering Speed 71.73 %
6 Pixel/individual 698.90 KPolygons/s
6 Pixel/strips 11524.29 KPolygons/s
25 Pixel/individual 700.01 KPolygons/s
25 Pixel/strips 11505.81 KPolygons/s
50 Pixel/individual 695.27 KPolygons/s
50 Pixel/strips 9082.43 KPolygons/s
250 Pixel/individual 701.12 KPolygons/s
250 Pixel/strips 2572.01 KPolygons/s
1000 Pixel/individual 606.36 KPolygons/s
1000 Pixel/strips 689.61 KPolygons/s
Processor Type Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Processor Speed 1800 MHz
L1 Cache size 128 KB
L2 Cache size 1,024 KB
Physical Memory 768 MB

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[Tim Murray]

only 12,000 3DMarks?

[swaaye]

Yes. I get a higher '3dmark score' in 3dmark 2001se. The scores are certainly not comparable.

Still, I'd expect more than 120fps. I don't know what it all means really, but those tests must not be all that simple. I can tell that at least some of the textures have mutiple layers. Could also be some weird incompatiblity....

Looked around and I am scoring about 6x better than a TNT1. Also about 8x higher CPU score than a P2-450.

[london-boy]

Originally Posted by swaaye

Looked around and I am scoring about 6x better than a TNT1. Also about 8x higher CPU score than a P2-450.

Is that it? I'd expect much much more than that.

[FUDie]

Originally Posted by swaaye

Yes. I get a higher '3dmark score' in 3dmark 2001se. The scores are certainly not comparable.

Still, I'd expect more than 120fps. I don't know what it all means really, but those tests must not be all that simple. I can tell that at least some of the textures have mutiple layers. Could also be some weird incompatiblity....

Looked around and I am scoring about 6x better than a TNT1.

Was the TNT1 running 800x600x16 or 1024x768x32?

-FUDie

[Guden Oden]

Originally Posted by london-boy

Is that it? I'd expect much much more than that.

8x a P2-450 isn't shabby at all, his A64 certainly isn't clocked at 3600MHz and clock speed increases is always a game of diminishing returns. Memory performance has increased about 8x (assuming dual-channel 400MHz DDR compared to PC100 SDRAM), while AGP speed only increased 4x in that time period. L2 cache is the same or up to 2x, and so on.

With that in mind I feel 8x real-world (if one counts 3dMk99 as "real-world" ) increase is actually rather good.

[swaaye]

P2-450 and a overclocked TNT1


Heh, I overstated my CPU performance. It's not 8x, actually about 6.6x. The P2-450 lacks any SIMD FP, while the A64 is detected as using 3dnow (I can't pick P3 even though I should be able to.)

Rasterizer score is 8x the speed of a TNT overclocked at 800x600x16, and 3dmarks are 4.5x.

Considering 3dmark99 doesn't use any features of the 9600 other than its pixel pushing capabilities, you aren't going to see advantages from T&L, etc. So I'd say a 8x increase in just raw pixel pushing as decent. My laptop's 9600 has very limited memory bandwidth too.....

But, obviously these results are useless except for maybe comparing your performance in Forsaken or something, lol.

[Dutch Guy]

A while ago I tried to install 3dmark'99 on my computer but it failed to install, is it possible to install/run this on a modern WinXP computer?

[swaaye]

You have to do some registry hacking because the keys that 3dmark99 looks for aren't there or aren't right. It's been discussed on the forums before I think. I never bothered to try.