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[Newbie]

whats this benchmarking stuff that all vid card reveiws get so caught up on?

and is the FX5950 better than radeon 9800 XT?

 

[Agent Z]

Benchmarking isnt only for video cards.
In a traditional sense a benchmark is a physical object of mark, as used in surveying land, that is placed at a known elevation and location and is then used as a point of reference to detertmine the elevation of other nearby locations. In computing, a benchmark has a smilar symbolic meaning - it serves as a point of reference against which the performance of a particular piece of hardware is tested.

Benchmarking can take on lots of different forms. They might take on a real-world value usch as the time is takes to perform a particular operation, such as, lets say, opening 10 instances of microsoft word and timing how long it takes. Or possibly benchmarking can be an abstract figure, like the MIPS of a cpu.

 

[Ragerunner]

http://www.futuremark.com/download/

Probably the more common benchmark program that is used.

I don't want to benchmark. I know how crap my computer is

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by Ragerunner
...I don't want to benchmark. I know how crap my computer is

yeah, same here. :mad1:

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by Newbie
whats this benchmarking stuff that all vid card reveiws get so caught up on?

and is the FX5950 better than radeon 9800 XT?

Heaps of apps can be used.

Stuff from Futuremark is good.

SiSoft Sandra
3D Mark, PC Mark.

Have a read of a couple of reviews and you'll find that Q3 tests are usually run with a few others, eg XviD and other media compression algorithms.

Let me know if you get over 22,000 3D Marks

 

[Newbie]

22000
is that what you get huy?

 

[jm1234567890]

i doubt it, you will need a severely overclocked system to get that

 

[Ragerunner]

My AMD 550 got a 630 Benchmark when it was left on for a whole day.

It had like 2fps when running it :/

 

[jm1234567890]

lol, my TNT2 got ~400 in 3Dmark 2003

but i presume that 630 is 3Dmark 2001

 

[Soliah]

Benchmarking is so '01.

 

[jm1234567890]

acctually that wasn't my TNT2, it was my GF4MX440
i don't think TNT2 can run '03

 

[Ragerunner]

my one was TNT2 i think. Or a geforce2 mx200 or some really crap one.

 

[hurrotisrobbo]

Ahem.

"Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics."

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by Newbie
22000
is that what you get huy?

*shifty eyes*
No, but it's damn close.

Originally posted by jm1234567890
i doubt it, you will need a severely overclocked system to get that

Severely overclocked you say?

You mean upping the frequency on RAM, video card, and CPU?
Something like a CPU with a 3.6GHz overclocking ceiling?

Running at 3.5GHz stable?
With HyperThreading (HT) technology?
What about purchasing some PC4000 RAM?
Or Having dual-channel memory, 4x512MB (maxed out) banks?

Yeah... it's doubtful for 22,000 on 3DMark2001 - too bad I don't play any games (LOTR:ROTK + LOTR:WOTR are some games I would like to try, but haven't got around to doing that yet).

Originally posted by jm1234567890
acctually that wasn't my TNT2, it was my GF4MX440
i don't think TNT2 can run '03

I have a 4 year old TNT2, 32MB card lying in another machine. From memory I believe it ran both 3DMark2001 and 2003.