Benchmarks II
3DMark 2001SE starts off the gaming benchmark run. Run at its default resolution of 1024x768x32. No anisotropic or antialiasing filtering.
3DMark appears to be partial to dual-channel DDR, as both test motherboards sandwich the RAMBUS benchmark. The DFI takes top honours for the first time. If you want to see the breakdown of the DFI's score, head over here.
On to Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. Benchmarked using normal settings and the system-taxing Valley of the Jaguar Timedemo in the publicly available demo.
A greater variance in the results here, as the demo is considerably bandwidth starved.
How about Comanche 4 ?, another benchmark that highlights the importance of usable bandwidth.
The DFI just squeezes past the comparison PC1066-equipped RAMBUS motherboard. The great aspect about dual-channel DDR is its innate ability to scale to heights that present RAMBUS, running at 4x, cannot reach.
