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Since we're in a
MadOnion
sort of mode, let's move on with the ever popular 3DMark
2001SE.
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MadOnion 3DMark
2001SE |
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DirectX 8 performance in 3D |
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This is another
benchmark that totally favors a high front side bus speed.
We've had our run of top system scores over at the
MO Fastest Web Master's Leader Board but haven't been as
focused on it these days. However, you'll notice all
our scores in this competition were garnered with a Pentium
4.
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Novalogic's
Comanche 4 |
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CPU intensive DirectX 8
benchmarking |
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Comanche 4 is
not only a fantastic looking Military Chopper Sim, it is one
heck of a CPU resource hog as well. We often use this
test in our 3D Graphics cards reviews but frankly, it is
better suited as a processor benchmark. Within the
same class of graphics cards, a few extra host processor
clock cycles, can have significant impact on frame rates.
Here's how things stack up for the new Pentium 4 Northwood
core.
As we suspected,
the 2.8GHz Pentium 4, with PC1066 RDRAM, has a commanding
lead of over 21% over the Athlon XP 2600+. In this
benchmark, all Pentium 4 variants, with the exception of the
2.4GHz i845 system, edge out in front of the Athlons.
Additionally, the 2.8GHz P4 is roughly 15% faster than it's
2.53GHz sibling.
Quake
3 Time Demo And Our Summation
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