So tonight , I will have extended time with a Radeon 9800
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....Luminescent
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The primary interest I have k is for comparison to the 9700 Pro at the same clock speeds.
There is an n-patch tool at http://www.tommti-systems.de/start.html
Things don't look too promising in terms of improvements from the one benchmark I seem to recall, but maybe something new could be exposed with variety.
There are some other tools there that could be very interesting, including Himself's suggestion with the 9800 at 9700 P clock speeds (which I realize now is possibly what he meant). AA and aniso performance comparisons would enhance this. If you could, a suite of tests for the full 3dmark03 benchmark suite at 9700 P clock speeds would be also be nice...and there seem to be a bunch of data-that-could-be-graphed-in-interesting-ways output options for 3dmark03, and I don't think frame rate over time graphs are widespread for that benchmark yet.
What I'm also interested in is some XOR comparisons with the same exact frame rendered for some pixel shader and maximum aa/aniso, to confirm exactly equivalent output (or point out any slight differences), but I'm not sure of a convenient tool for such comparisons.
For some relaxation, FRAPS + the DX 9 demos (do any have benchmarking functions built in?) for comparison to the 9700 Pro could be interesting too.
Finally, I'll repeat my suggestion to see if these registry keys make any difference in performance (more interesting with the 9800 to test now):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ATI Technologies\Driver\0000\atidxhal] (the path under Windows 9x...should make it easier to find under XP), the entries "PVSCode" and "TexStages" set to both "0" and "1" for contrast (assuming the entries do anything at all currently), maybe with the Fillrate Tester application.
Hmm...well, as much as the above as you are willing to do, if you're not going to send it to me...
There is an n-patch tool at http://www.tommti-systems.de/start.html
Things don't look too promising in terms of improvements from the one benchmark I seem to recall, but maybe something new could be exposed with variety.
There are some other tools there that could be very interesting, including Himself's suggestion with the 9800 at 9700 P clock speeds (which I realize now is possibly what he meant). AA and aniso performance comparisons would enhance this. If you could, a suite of tests for the full 3dmark03 benchmark suite at 9700 P clock speeds would be also be nice...and there seem to be a bunch of data-that-could-be-graphed-in-interesting-ways output options for 3dmark03, and I don't think frame rate over time graphs are widespread for that benchmark yet.
What I'm also interested in is some XOR comparisons with the same exact frame rendered for some pixel shader and maximum aa/aniso, to confirm exactly equivalent output (or point out any slight differences), but I'm not sure of a convenient tool for such comparisons.
For some relaxation, FRAPS + the DX 9 demos (do any have benchmarking functions built in?) for comparison to the 9700 Pro could be interesting too.
Finally, I'll repeat my suggestion to see if these registry keys make any difference in performance (more interesting with the 9800 to test now):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ATI Technologies\Driver\0000\atidxhal] (the path under Windows 9x...should make it easier to find under XP), the entries "PVSCode" and "TexStages" set to both "0" and "1" for contrast (assuming the entries do anything at all currently), maybe with the Fillrate Tester application.
Hmm...well, as much as the above as you are willing to do, if you're not going to send it to me...
demalion said:
Well comparisons in general with multiple cards, sure, clock normalized would be a bonus.
demalion said:
The entries under XP will have a path under CurrentControlSet/Class/Video/SomeGUID if I recall correctly.
Do you know what these entries are supposed to be about? I have seen them before in regmon logs, no idea what they are for.
If you wanted to [re]install R3DTweak, you could edit tweaker.txt to add them in using the following. Append to the end, doesn't really matter.
HKR,"%twkreg%\DX PVSCode","KeyID",,"%D3D_KEY%"
HKR,"%twkreg%\DX PVSCode","ValueName",,"PVSCode"
HKR,"%twkreg%\DX PVSCode","Category",,"%CAT_DIRECTX%"
HKR,"%twkreg%\DX PVSCode","DisplayName",,"PVSCode"
HKR,"%twkreg%\DX PVSCode","IsStringNumber",,"1"
HKR,"%twkreg%\DX PVSCode","Default",,"0"
HKR,"%twkreg%\DX TexStages","KeyID",,"%D3D_KEY%"
HKR,"%twkreg%\DX TexStages","ValueName",,"TexStages"
HKR,"%twkreg%\DX TexStages","Category",,"%CAT_DIRECTX%"
HKR,"%twkreg%\DX TexStages","DisplayName",,"TexStages"
HKR,"%twkreg%\DX TexStages","IsStringNumber",,"1"
HKR,"%twkreg%\DX TexStages","Default",,"1"
That would automatically sort out the key for you, regardless of OS.
TheMightyPuck
Newcomer
nascar 2003, il2 sturmovik (or forgotten battles). basically, what i want to see is if the 9800 can improve my exerience with the applications i use.
Nebuchadnezzar
Legend
IT said:Have it run a 3000+ instruction long shader and see what happens.
I second that.
Althornin said:
well thast with the 64meg texture option, I'll can always choose the 32meg textures and see what happens.
How does it perform with 4xAA on a Gf4? Does anyone know?
Dont use Fraps, Fraps misreads NWN, and will gave me a result of 40+fps, whereas the ingame framerate counter was showing 15-20fps, which judging by ots smoothness was correct.
