Benchmarking question for MX owners

[JonP]

I am interested in how the new Nvidia MX chipset compares at low resolution (640 x 480 x 16 and 800 x 600 x 16 only) with a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP. For this comparison, I'm only interested in Direct3D performance without T&L support (obviously the MX would blow the Voodoo away with T&L support enabled).

So, is there any way you can D3D benchmark with, say 3DMark 2000 with T&L turned off? Or if you can't turn it off, is there some other benchmark you can run for me that doesn't support GPU hardware T&L?

Thanks

[Huge]

I'm not sure if you can turn it off; I was bored a few minutes ago and ran the default demo.

On a p2-450, I got 3500+ score; much improved from my 1200+ score but others with more modern equip can expect scores in the 6k-7k range.

You may want to try sisoft sandra2k for non gpu tests...

[This message has been edited by Huge (edited 09-10-2000).]

[JonP]

Actually, if anyone still has 3DMark99, they could run that. Huge, that's an interesting score. My 667 gives 3DMark 2000 score of 3600 on the Voodoo3 at 800 x 600 x 16. T&L worth 2 hundred and a bit megahertz?

[Gasman]

I think that under the options in 3dmark2k you can turn off hardware t&l (you can set it to either SSE or 3DNOW, depending on which cpu you have)
Dont know for sure, but this should give a more fair benchmark, as the cpu is left to do the t&l.
You need to ask people to run the benchmark this way, to get a better picture, but the speed of the cpu will play a big part in the results.


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[Huge]

Originally posted by JonP:
Actually, if anyone still has 3DMark99, they could run that. Huge, that's an interesting score. My 667 gives 3DMark 2000 score of 3600 on the Voodoo3 at 800 x 600 x 16. T&L worth 2 hundred and a bit megahertz?

I was running at 1280x1024...




Good luck running anything like this!


[This message has been edited by Huge (edited 09-10-2000).]