NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition

Name: NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition - Page 9
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, April 05, 2005, 08:00 AM EDT

Next up, we ran the Kribibench rendering benchmark produced by the folks at Adept Development. Kribibench is an SSE aware software renderer. A 3D model is rendered and animated by the host CPU, and the average frame rate is reported. We used two of the included models with this benchmark: an "Exploded Sponge" model consisting of over 19.2 million polygons and an absolutely gargantuan "Ultra" model that is comprised of over 16 billion polys...

Kribibench v1.1

Details: www.adeptdevelopment.com

Our KribiBench results went in favor of the i925XE based system in one test and in favor of the NF4 in another, but again, the performance deltas separating the platforms were quite small. When animating the Sponge Explode model, the i925XE beat the nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition by only 1 / 100th of frame per second. And when animating the Ultra model, the delta separating the platforms shrunk to only 1 / 1000th of a frame per second. We think it's safe to call this one a tie.

Tags: Nvidia, Intel, nforce, sli, edition, force, id

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com