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3DMark
2001 |
Simply Beautiful... |
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When it comes to Direct 8
benchmarking programs, it just doesn't get any better than
with 3DMark 2001. This benchmark does an excellent job
at flooding a system with DirectX intesive instructions,
designed to tax the mightiest of video cards. Sounds
like fun, let's get started!
There is no denying that the
ELSA Gladiac 920 can burn through any Direct X gaming you
can throw at it. Once we overclocked the 920, we saw
an nominal gain of 5.5% at 800x600, but at 1600x1200, the
gain exceeded 16%! Now let's take a look at some
Anti-Aliasing...
When it comes Anti-Aliasing,
the visual gains are tremendous, but so is the performance hit
the system takes by enabling
such a feature. At 4X the score dropped over 50%,
although
3262 is well above acceptable levels at this resolution.
Our next round
of tests will focus on the OpenGL...
DroneZ, GL Excess/XSMark
and Some
Quake 3...