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While its first generation was somewhat uninspiring, the new 'RS300' Radeon 9100 IGP promises to offer something more - at least to prospective Pentium 4 owners.
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Benchmarks: PCMark2002, 3DMark2001
PCMark can be used on desktop PC's, Laptops and even Workstations and tests
everyday from home to office usage. PCMark
specifically stresses the CPU, memory subsystem, graphics subsystem, hard
drives, WindowsXP GUI (if WinXP is used), video performance and even laptop batteries.
Both ATI and Intel platforms achieve comparable scores in
the CPU benchmark - to be expected considering they are both utilizing 3.06GHz
processors. There is a discrepancy in the memory test, though. But as mentioned,
ATI claims to be working on the RADEON's DDR memory controller, so there is a
chance that performance could improve between now and when 9100 IGP products
start shipping.
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 |
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Processor |
3DMarks |
Ranking |
1. |
Intel 865G (DDR333) |
2429 |
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2. |
ATI RADEON 9100 IGP (DDR333) |
4636 |
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3. |
ATI RADEON 9100 IGP (DDR400) |
5623 |
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ATI self-reportedly hasn't
finished optimizing the RADEON 9100 IGP's memory controller yet, but the 3D core
itself should be in its final trim. 3D Mark 2001 SE is an older synthetic
metric, which used to stress graphics performance more than any other
application. However, it has recently been overshadowed by Futuremark's latest
creation 3D Mark 2003. Even still, 3D Mark 2001 SE illustrates two points:
first, the RADEON 9100 IGP is vastly superior to Intel's Extreme Graphics 2
solution, stable as it may be and second, augmenting memory bandwidth with
DDR400 yields an 18 percent improvement as compared to DDR333 running
synchronously to the Pentium 4 front side bus.
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