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Performance Comparisons with XMPEG - Divx 5.02
Conversion |
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Video Conversion
Performance |
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If there is
one test that truly exercises overall system bandwidth, it
would have to be a Divx conversion with XMPEG. Here
we've taken a 20MB MPEG 2 file and converted it to Divx
format with an installed Divx 5.02 CODEC.
Once again we
have an almost identical outcome as we saw in the Winstone
tests. The two E7205 Granite Bay boards are in a
photo-finish tie and the i845PE and i850E fell behind from
as much as 5 to 10%.
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Performance Comparisons with 3DMark 2001SE |
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A very Mad Onion |
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MadOnion's 3DMark 2001SE is up next and it too likes
it's healthy share of memory bandwidth but not at the
expense of overall CPU performance. We thought we're
in for more of the same here as well.
1024X768 - 32 Bit Color
The additional
memory bandwidth and 8X AGP speeds of the P4G8X, as well
as the MSI board, give the board a healthy lead over it's
single channel DDR and RDRAM driven 4X AGP counterparts.
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Quake 3 Arena Time Demo Benchmark |
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Old, crusty
but still relevant |
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We set up
our Quake 3 Time Demo run at the "Normal" setting with
low 640X480 resolution. This will help to
isolate the CPU and showcase overall System Bandwidth
as well.
640X480 - 16 Color and Textures
Surprisingly, there is
actually a small advantage in favor of the Asus P4G8X
here, where in our previous tests, the two Granite Bay
boards were scoring identically. The Asus P4G8X
only leads the MSI board by 5 fps or less than 2% but
the difference was there. We'll chalk this up to
Asus' aggressive CPU timings that we spoke of earlier.
Unreal Tournament
2003 and the rating
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