Benchmarks I
Having just finished the review of the SN41G2 it was a perfect platform to bench the Albatron card on taking advantage of the 8x AGP seeing what implication this has on the perormance of the card given its improved Bandwidth capabilities. I am running the benches in 4x mode as well on the same platform and also on the SS51G in 4x as that is its limit.During the benchmarking sound was disabled.
Lets start with the recently renamed Futuremarks bench 3Dmarks 2001SE.
Those are impressive numbers. Please note Anti-Aliasing and Anisotrophic Filtering were disable in the Driver Control Panel throughout all the tests.
Yes before you ask that is correct.... I was benching this card at well over Ti4600 speeds. 320 Core 675 Memory from a stock speed of 250/550. Seems this swish little heatsink does its job well. the card was stable with no visual artifacts at all for the duration of the tests.
Interestingly the 8X AGP scores come in last here. I guess the overall power of the 2.8 is a bit much for the xp2400+, but the disadvantage of having only 256MB memory may help to level the playing field. 13,6xx points is a bit disheartening when I think back to the massive 1320Mhz overclock I needed from my old 1.6a to break the 13k threshold, even then I just creeped over with lots of performance tweaks. It has been shattered here by a stock CPU and extremely clockable graphics card.
On to Serious Sam 2. We're benchmarking the publicly available Valley of the Jaguar Time demo, one that is heavily reliant on subsystem speed, at 1024x768x32 Normal preferences.
This bench relies on both subsystem speed and graphics power and we see again that the 8X AGP doesnt seem to be shining.
Normally I wouldnt show 2 benchmarks from the same game, but recently people have seemed to have migrated to the Sierra de Chiapas Demo as its more representative of the game as a whole that the taxing Valley Demo. Not being one to buck a trend yet still wanting to fit in with some previous stuff I thought i'd be a devil and include them both just this once.
Next up is Commanche 4 from Novalogic.
Well as expected the P4 seems to have a bit too much for the 2400+ to cope with and mantains a cleansweep of all the benches so far. And still slightly behind is the 8X AGP scores.
