3DMark2001 SE is the latest installment in
the 3DMark series by MadOnion. By combining DirectX8 support with completely new
graphics, it continues to provide good overall system benchmarks. 3DMark2001 SE
has been created in cooperation with the major 3D accelerator and processor
manufacturers to provide a reliable set of diagnostic tools. The suite
demonstrates 3D gaming performance by using real-world gaming technology to test
a system's true performance abilities. Tests include: DirectX8 Vertex Shaders,
Pixel Shaders and Point Sprites, DOT3 and Environment Mapped Bump Mapping,
support for Full Scene Anti-aliasing and Texture Compression and two game tests
using Ipion real-time physics. Higher 3DMark scores denote better
performance.
| 3DMark2001 SE Benchmark Results |
|
Motherboard (FSB/Memory) |
3DMarks |
Ranking |
| 1. |
850Pro5 (RDRAM) |
10054 |
|
| 2. |
845 Ultra (DDR) |
9635 |
 |
3DMark2001SE prefers RDRAM over DDR here but the
performance differences are quite close still. In all honesty, we're a little
disappointed that a P4 2 GHz with DDR and a Ti4600 couldn't break 10k.
Quake III Arena is a First Person Shooter (FPS)
that revolutionized gaming as we know it. Using multiple light sources and
having graphics textures that can fill videocards, even after 3 years it's still
able to bring a cutting edge system to its knees.
| Quake III Arena Fastest demo001 |
|
Video Card |
FPS |
Ranking |
| 1. |
850Pro5 (RDRAM) |
271.6 |
 |
| 2. |
845 Ultra (DDR) |
259.3 |
|
| Quake III Arena Fastest nv15demo |
|
Video Card |
FPS |
Ranking |
| 1. |
850Pro5 (RDRAM) |
74.1 |
|
| 2. |
845 Ultra (DDR) |
72.9 |
|
With the
settings set to fastest the benchmark demo's become pure system testers. Here we
can see from demo001 that there is quite a big performance difference between
RDRAM and DDR. The nv15demo is more of a CPU tester, but still here we see that
DDR is holding the processor back a little bit.
| Quake III Arena MAX 1024x768 demo001 |
|
Video Card |
FPS |
Ranking |
| 1. |
850Pro5 (RDRAM) |
216.5 |
|
| 2. |
845 Ultra (DDR) |
209.7 |
|
| Quake III Arena MAX 1024x768 nv15demo |
|
Video Card |
FPS |
Ranking |
| 1. |
850Pro5 (RDRAM) |
51.1 |
|
| 2. |
845 Ultra (DDR) |
49.9 |
|
As the resolution is turned up the videocard starts
to become the bottleneck (yes even a Ti4600!) and the differences are much
closer.
3DMark2001 SE
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