SidewinderX
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Well, more evidence is mounting against Futuremark and thier line od 3DMark0x progams. Some people swaer by them as benchmarks to judge thier system by. THey need to learn something. Synthetic Benchmarks, such as 3DMark03, are supposed to show the performance of your system as a whole. from Futuremark's website:
However, in a recent test by Ace's Hardware, A Pentium III 350Mhz with a 9700 PRO video card was able to score as well as a P4 2.8GHz machine with a 9600Pro and and as well as a 1.4GHz Celeron with a 9700 Pro in 3DMark03. (in the 3 directX 9 test. WoF, the Dx7 test, the scores were as expected)
However, in reall game benchmarks, the PIII was not able to even pretend to keep pace with the 1.4GHz and the 2.8Ghz PCs.
Does 3DMark03 really test your systema s a gaming machine? No.
linky
By combining full DirectX®9.0a support with completely new tests and graphics, 3DMark03 Pro continues the legacy of being the industry standard benchmark. The high quality game tests, image quality tests, sound tests and others give you an extremely accurate overview of your system’s current gaming performance.
However, in a recent test by Ace's Hardware, A Pentium III 350Mhz with a 9700 PRO video card was able to score as well as a P4 2.8GHz machine with a 9600Pro and and as well as a 1.4GHz Celeron with a 9700 Pro in 3DMark03. (in the 3 directX 9 test. WoF, the Dx7 test, the scores were as expected)
However, in reall game benchmarks, the PIII was not able to even pretend to keep pace with the 1.4GHz and the 2.8Ghz PCs.
Does 3DMark03 really test your systema s a gaming machine? No.
linky
After testing both 3DMark03 and a variety of real-world games based on DirectX 7, 8.1, and 9, we suspect that 3DMark03 is really more of a video card benchmark than anything else. It seems that some of the game tests, especially Mother Nature, measure video card performance almost in isolation from the rest of the system.
For a synthetic graphics accelerator benchmark, this is an ideal situation. But this is not how 3DMark03 has been represented. It is stated to provide an overview of your "system's current gaming performance." Yet from our results, it has failed in that charge twice, by grossly exaggerating the performance of a 350 MHz Pentium II with a Radeon 9700 Pro and minimizing the performance of a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 with a Radeon 9600.