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4 benchmarks to start with, two DX8 based heavyweights and our OpenGL staples, Quake3 and SS2. Let's take a look at 3DMark 2001 first.
Before benchmarking the board I was expecting good performance, especially after reading some other SiS735 based reviews around the web. Let's see how it does with Ti4400 and XP2100 to help it along.
Just shy of 10,000 3DMark's is exactly where performance should be given the components used. In terms of comparable performance to something like KT333, the SiS735 doesn't support DDR333 memory like on the other two AMD test setups used for the numbers although when running AMD processors, the bandwidth advantage from the DDR333 memory is unavailable to the CPU.
So good performance to start with, let's see if that carries over onto Aquamark.
The XP2100 and Ti4400 help keep performance just shy of 2.4B and it was surprisingly close, I was expecting more of a performance drop off. So again, surprisingly strong. The XP2100 certainly helps things along.
What about Quake3? Can it stay competitive for the 3rd round?
Things drop off in the lower resolutions where overall system throughput is more important than graphics card performance but at the highest test resolution, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between the systems on test. Nearly identical real world performance in Quake3 means the board is keeping up well, more than I initially expected it to. A performance surprise at this point.
A quick look at Serious Sam 2. Performance should be competitive but slightly off the pace as expected.
Last place in all tests but considering what's under the hood compared to the other systems, strong performance from the board. The board does well given what's at its disposal.
Lets have a look at some Comanche 4 before having a look at some non 3D based tests.
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