Benchmarks II
On to gaming and 3DMark 2001SE. Just how will a whopping 3.65GHz of CPU power impact upon performance. Please remember that we're using a standard, unclocked GeForce4 Ti 4600 with no driver tweaks.
If you want to see how the 3.65GHz's scores were calculated, head over to the compare URL here Almost 15,000 marks at the default resolution is higher than most people reach with their Radeon 9700s. It just shows what extreme MHz can do for your 3DMark scores.
Let's now have a look at the bandwidth-hungry Valley of the Jaguar benchmark contained within the publicly available edition of Croteam's excellent first-person-shooter, Serious Sam 2. Settings are 1024x768x32 Normal preferences. I deliberately choose this demo as it stresses the subsystem heavily.
This benchmark is driven by a fast CPU. You can't get much faster than a 3.65GHz P4 sitting under a R134a-based VapoChill P.E.
On to another subsystem-taxing benchmark in Comanche 4. This impressive helicopter benchmark, based on a game from Novalogic, requires a serious amount of CPU and memory power to run smoothly. Historically, the Pentium 4 has always enjoyed this benchmark. What will the 3.65GHz CPU make of it ?.
The newer 40.41 drivers give us lower scores than expected. 3.65GHz under the hood pushes up well into the 60fps class.
And on to Quake 3 fastest to see CPU speed and bandwidth in action.
Sheer CPU grunt, given by 3.65GHz, propels us close to the 500 fps barrier.
