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To: jcholewa who wrote (7019)	8/30/2000 3:56:41 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

JC, Re: And the really interesting thing is that the Pikachu fellow, after reporting tons of scores showing that the prerelease Willamette's fpu was crappy, also chunked out Q3 scores which sounded ridiculous. This leaves only one explanation: Either both benchmarks are faked or the extremely high memory bandwith leads to enormous improvements in Quake 3. We know that Quake 3 is very memory dependent (I think it was one of the few applications that showed actual improvements in the percent range when using an i820 chipset with RDRAM; and also remember the DDR scores from last week) and that it is ISSE optimized. I'm no expert in graphic card, so I don't know the theoretical fps limit with ideal hardware (i.e. CPU as fast as possible, no memory bottlenecks etc.) on a GeForce 2 with a fillrate of ca. 650 megatexels per seconds. Could you (or someone else) give some figures on that? The latest Sandra has "preliminary Pentium 4 support". Wow, these benchmark guys are fast. Intel must be working close with them... ;-) Edit: One thing is still strange. Why does Sandra identify the 1 GHz P4 as a 250 MHz P4 when it should have support for it? Isn't this a relatively obvious issue (probably due to the quad-pumped FSB) that could be easily fixed? Andreas