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.
3DMark2001SE is well known for craving not just memory
bandwidth, but aggressive timings as well. Here we see that performance at 200
MHz with conservative timings are about the same as 166 MHz with aggressive ones with
the AMD based system. On the Intel rig we do get a performance boost,
but that's more due with the higher overall CPU speed then anything
else.
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 gets a decent speed boost thanks to the higher
FSB, but the numbers are still relatively low especially when you compare to the
OCZ PC2700 we tested recently. The Pentium 4 based system gets
a healthy performance boost but again the CPU speed is running faster.
3DMark2001 SE
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