Benchmarks II
3DMark 2001SE v330 kicks of the gaming; a test in which useable bandwidth really matters.
All the Canterwoods manage to break the 18,000 barrier with a stock Radeon 9800 Pro. The Intel Bonanza board continues to impress. We feel as if manufacturers need a little time to fine-tune their production boards. Reference boards shouldn't really be faster than well-honed retail models. Only the Asus seems able to outgun it, and that's with a 30MHz clock advantage. Both the MSI and EPoX boards should outrun the reference board once newer performance-based BIOSes become available.
Serious Sam 2 next. Using quality settings with no anisotropic filtering. Sierra De Chiapas Demo at 1024x768x32.
More of the same here. And now Comanche 4 at the same resolution.
It's impossible to visually differentiate the Canterwood's performances. You simply cannot tell the difference between 63.17 and 62.15 FPS.
