System Benchmarks
Realstorm first, a software-only ray tracing application that seeks to do the method of 3D rendering in real-time.
When we are CPU limited, as we are with Realstorm, the KT880 is able to keep pace with nForce2 Ultra 400. The XP3200+ test processor is happy with that chipset as a running mate.
Kribibench is another software 3D renderer, this time doing things 'normally', like a GPU would, using triangle primitives, texture mapping, anti-aliasing and the like.
The AN7 takes the win again, leaving KT880 trailing. The gap isn't huge, but it's there. LAME next, a completely CPU bound application.
The KT880 reference board comes out on top, but by a statistically insignificant margin of error. Quake 3 rounds off this group of tests.
Ouch! Completely reproducible too. I'm guessing here, but it seems like the respective AGP implementations might be having some kind of influence. Even KT600 isn't that slow in Quake3 at our benchmark settings. Something slightly amiss, we'll put that down to teething troubles with a reference board.
Graphical tests to round things off.
