Wow.. Went from a 10,300 to a 11,800 in 3dMark2001 with the change from a 9500 PRO to a 9800 PRO

[Salvador]

Is this all? 1,500 points more with a 9800 PRO over a 9500 PRO? To be fair, I tried playing hte far cry demo last night with the 9800 PRO and some of the graphics or settings that choked the 9500 PRO were smooth with the 9800 PRO. I guess what's important is game play.

BTW.. I'm using the latest Catylist drivers from ATI's site. This system has a KT333 Epox board with 512 mb of 333 DDR RAM and a XP2400+ cpu.

Sal

 

[Blastman]

3Dmark 2001 scores depend heavily on how fast your system CPU/memory is.

3Dmark2003 is much more GPU bound.

 

[Keysplayr]

Yeah thats great.

The real point is, how does it improve gameplay? Or is the only thing your interested in playing is 3DMark....

 

[Megatomic]

Try the UT2K4 Demo (or UT2K3 if you have it). Or the Comanche 4 Demo benchmark. Anything but 3DMock...

 

[par]

that's exactly why i'm staying with my 9500np @ 9700 until at LEAST next spring...

 

[McArra]

The rest of the system is holding you back.

 

[modedepe]

Originally posted by: McArra
The rest of the system is holding you back.

 

[Blastman]

That does seem low. I was thinking you should be up around 14,000 with a 2400+ 9800pro setup.
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Do you have your M/B drivers installed? On my VIA M/B ? ? XP AGP Windows drivers work but are 15-20% slower than the VIA all in one drivers. Check to see that Vsync turned off and no AA/AF enabled.

 

[OrenSam]

 

[OrenSam]

(sorry for that empty post, my finger went to the ENTER key by itself )
I think that is indeed the rest of the system that's holding you back...
try to compare your GFX score in AquaMark 3 and see the difference - I'm sure it will be much bigger that the 1500 on 3DMark...

 

[Special1Sauce]

I dont really care about 3dmarks anymore I used to but Test it with Real games

 

[CrystalBay]

Originally posted by: Salvador
Is this all? 1,500 points more with a 9800 PRO over a 9500 PRO? To be fair, I tried playing hte far cry demo last night with the 9800 PRO and some of the graphics or settings that choked the 9500 PRO were smooth with the 9800 PRO. I guess what's important is game play.

BTW.. I'm using the latest Catylist drivers from ATI's site. This system has a KT333 Epox board with 512 mb of 333 DDR RAM and a XP2400+ cpu.

Sal

Hi your MB chipset is hindering your score more than anything. I get over 14K with my setup at 166FSB

 

[Gamingphreek]

Your memory and M/B are holding you back. You CPU not so much but still you should get a 2500+ Barton the best O/Cing CPU on AMDs side. You memory is probably OK but if you can iafford it id upgrade. However most of all you are in dire need of a M/B upgrade. I would highly recommend ASUS, Abit, DFI, and Gigabyte. They all have very solid boards. The ONLY way to go in AMD is Nforce 2 they are without a doubt the best M/Bs on AMDs side. When you upgrade your M/B your scores will sky rocket about 3000-4000 more points. (AGP 8x will be a nice asset to have as you are running an AGP 8x card)
Kevin Boyd

 

[edmundoab]

I think the performance increase is proportionate since its 3dmark 2001

 

[Blastman]

Originally posted by: Special1Sauce
I dont really care about 3dmarks anymore I used to but Test it with Real games

3Dmark2001 is extremely useful for checking to see if the performance of ones system is up to snuff. It?s a consistent benchmark that provides easily configurable standard settings to test a system with the same workload.

When I got my Sapphire 9100 64MB, I tested it on 3Dmark2001 and it was 1500 pts lower than I expected. Pretty well knew instantly it was a 64bit memory bus card...*&^%^%%$$#$^$%!!!!!.

 

[sandorski]

3dmar2k1 for CPU, 3dmark2k3 for video card. Game benchmarks are always preferable to either though.

 

[SneakyStuff]

Yea, my 3dmark2001 score SUCKS, because my cpu.....SUCKS! But my 3dmark03 score is 3701, which is decent I think.

(EDIT) O yea, and I totally agree, 3dmark is cool and all, but it doesn't compare to actually PLAYING the games

 

[Salvador]

I prefer to play 3dMark2001 to some of the video games that are out there.

Sal

 

[MichaelZ]

*points and laughts*

 

[wkabel23]

Originally posted by: McArra
The rest of the system is holding you back.

 

[JBT]

The rest of your system is holding you back check my sig I get ~14500 with that.

 

[par]

Your system is holding you back

 

[DarkKnight]

i agree that it does seem low. did u reformat or at least use a driver cleaner after switching cards? I always do that after installing new hardware. Maybe some 9500 settings are still in your comp, not sure

 

[rancherlee]

My guess is that he has AA/AF set to high quility in the control panel, that will force AA/AF on which will drop the 3dmark scores quite a bit. Heck I've pulled 11,500 with my Radeon 8500

 

[Zebo]

RMA sal and stop reading these kiddies posts which cause upgraditis. There is no excuse to buy a 9800 if you have a 9500pro with all this new stuff coming this year. And will mature by 2005 .. DDR2, Nforce350, PCIxpress etc.

I bet you don't even have a reason to upgrade and that 9500pro played everything you own just fine. RMA