Performance summary : Almost fluid
Things are getting better. It's no longer a slow-motion
slideshow.
A review of various cards on a high-end Pentium system can be found at the Tech Report, but lets review my scores first :
| Game Tests | Sharok | Falmir |
|---|---|---|
| Return to Proxycon | 10.4 | 6.1 |
| Firefly Forest | 6.4 | 6.2 |
| Canyon Flight | 12.5 | 12.8 |
| Final Score | 4901 | 1957 |
| CPU Tests | Sharok | Falmir |
|---|---|---|
| Return to Proxycon | 1.4 | 1.1 |
| Canyon Flight | 2.6 | 1.8 |
| Final Score | 3134 | 2076 |
The scores are better than before for Sharok, but nothing stellar. Now that I have splurged on the Pro version of this benchmark, I can give the details and the graphs :
| Other Values |
Sharok |
Falmir |
|---|---|---|
| Fill Rate - Single-Texturing
(MTexels/s) |
3569.8 |
1958.4 |
| Fill Rate - Multi-Texturing (MTexels/s) | 6243.7 | 3015.1 |
| Pixel Shader (fps) |
151.0 |
48.8 |
| Vertex Shader - Simple (MVertices/s) | 46.9 |
45.6 |
| Vertex Shader - Complex (MVertices/s) | 37.0 | 26.7 |
This is all a bunch of nice numbers, but what really interests me is
the performance given by the graphs. For Proxycon, here is the result :
| Sharok |
Falmir |
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The minimum framerate is a dismal 5,95 fps for Sharok, and only 1,36 for Falmir. Dreadful. But with Firefly it gets worse :
| Sharok |
Falmir |
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 |
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For Sharok, the performance minimum drops by amost 2 frames, Falmir actually gets a 2.4 frame boost. Sure, the 6800 still ups the R9800, but it's by a teeny amount. Oh well, there's still Canyon :
| Sharok |
Falmir |
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Here the performance minimum increases across the board, but the end
result is still dismal..