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To: Elmer who wrote (82988)	12/15/1999 3:58:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572507

Who cares about 800 CrapperMine -- for games its slower than an Athlon 700. Anands review of the ATI Rage Fury MAX video card has benchmarks for 10 video cards, using two color depths (16 and 32 bit), using 3 resolutions and using two games -- one is a DirectX game, the other is an OpenGL game (Unreal tournament and Quake III Arena). They are run on CuMine 600 and 700 on the finest BX board, so it is easy to extrapolate the results to get a frame rate for an 800 MHz CuMine. Actually this gives an optimistic prediction of CuMine 800 MHz framerates because if the video card becomes fill-rate-limited at any point between 600 and 800 MHz, the extrapolated frame rate will be too high. Anand also runs all of the benchmarks on a 700 MHz Athlon system using the Gigabyte motherboard. anandtech.com What I found is that in most cases an Athlon 700 system will outperform a CuMine 800 system. There are a total of 100 combinations of video card, resolution, color depth and game. Of these 100, Athlon 700 beats CuMine 800 in 59 tests CuMine 800 beats Athlon 700 in 20 tests They are within 2% in 21 tests, mostly at higher resolutions where the CPU doesn't matter. The average frame rate margin for the Athlon is 7.6% over all tests. By card manufacturer we have the following info: Athlon-CuMine-Tie ATI: 7-9-8 (i.e., Athlon wins in 7, Cumine in 9 tests, 8 tied) S3: 6-4-2 Matrox: 4-2-4 NVIDIA: 33-2-1 3DFX: 9-3-6 Note that half the ATI tests are on the new Rage Fury MAXX card which does not yet have 3DNow optimizations in its drivers, since the cheaper Rage Fury PRO card actually outperformed it, but only on the Athlon. Petz