Doom 3 is
the most advanced game to date. it takes advantage of the latest videocard
technology and pushes the processing power of the CPU to its absolute limit. At
its highest setting, Ultra quality, texture sizes pass the 500MB mark which
means even tomorrow's videocards will have a hard time running everything. The
frame rates in the game itself are locked at 60 fps so anything above that point
is wasted. Each test is run three times with the third run being
recorded.
| Doom 3 |
| LQ 640x480: |
FPS |
Ranking |
| 2x 512MB Patriot PEP5125600ELK PC5600
(200/400) |
127.5 |
   |
| 2x 512MB Corsair TwinX1024-3200XL PRO
(200/400) |
126.4 |
|
| 2x 512MB Centon GEMiNi PC3200 (200/400) |
125.7 |
|
| 2x 1024MB OCZ PC4000 Gold (200/400) |
128 |
   |
| 2x 1024MB OCZ PC4000 Gold (253/506) |
132.4 |
|
In Doom 3 we do see some minor performance improvement
with the 2GB OCZ PC4000 Gold memory modules running. Remember its running looser
timings than the other DIMMs yet is able to perform at the same speed.
In
Battlefield 2, players will choose to fight for one of three military
superpowers: the United States, the Chinese, or the newly formed Middle East
Coalition. Armed with the latest modern weaponry, players can take control of
any of the game’s 30+ vehicles to engage in major conflicts with over 64 players
in some of the largest online battles on the PC. Test is run five times, which will then be averaged with the
highest and lowest runs disregarded, settings are high quality at
1024x768.
These results should not be a surprise to anyone who
plays Battlefield 2, but it underscores how 2GB of memory really can improve
things drastically in specific game titles, while not at all in others like
Doom3. Thanks to the latest patch, Battlefield 2 uses a ton of memory, over
800MB according to task manager. The game does not leave a lot of memory for
services running in the background, hence the benefit we see here when running
more than 1GB of RAM.
Doom
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