AM3 AquaMark 3 - Local Mirror and First Benches

Others/Miscelleneous by jmke @ 2003-09-14

We show you what you can expect performance-wise on today?s hardware. And starting from 15 September @ 15:00 GMT we will provide you with a local download link! 

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BenchMarks ATI R9800 Pro

Test system specs :
  • Pentium 4 "C" 2.4Ghz
  • Asus P4C800 (Bios Rev 1011)
  • Corsair PC3200 and PC3700
  • Hercules Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb (kindly provided by Comtechnology.net for sale @ €416)

    System clean installed with Windows XP SP1, Catalyst 3.7 drivers and DirectX 9.1b

    Each bench was repeated 3 times to achieve an average score, on this system the default benchmark took ~2min30sec

    Quality Settings Comparison

    In the ATI control moved the slider from default to Best Quality and Best Performance

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    The speed gain from NQ -> LQ is very minimal; however choosing HQ shows a significant slowdown.


    Hyper Threading on the P4

    This benchmarks supports HT on the P4, let's see what happens when we disable it

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    The Global GFX score remains unchanged, while the CPU score sees a considerable improvement!


    System RAM: 256Mb vs 512Mb

    Changing the PC3200 256Mb module for a 512Mb one, keeping the same memory timings and speed:

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    Both CPU and GFX see an improvement from adding more RAM to the test system.


    CPU Overclocking

    Chosing a 5:4 divider and upping the FSB to 250 gives a nice round 3.0Ghz with RAM running at PC3200 speeds:

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    Aquamark3 reflects the CPU speed increase nicely, 25% CPU speed increase results in 4% AM3 score increase.


    GPU Overclocking

    The ATI default clocks were upped to 360/400 with the CPU back at 2.4Ghz

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    5-6% overclocking of the GPU & Memory on the Video card results in 0.07% increase in points.


    Now that we have all the results it's time to publish them -->
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