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Have you ever
heard of the Chewbacca Strategy used by Johnny Cochran in the Southpark
episode? This is a very similar Strategy used to benchmark these
3D cards. And when you use that kind of logic, how can you go wrong?
Here's how Jeff
Ng did it. They loaded up Everquest spun the character around
360 degrees or 1 Rotation.
| System
|
Performance
(EQ Rotation) |
AMD
K6-2 (300Mhz)
Diamond Voodoo2 12Megs
128 Megs of RAM |
18 Seconds
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| System
|
Performance
(EQ Rotation) |
AMD
K6-2 (300Mhz)
2 Diamond Voodoo2 12Megs (SLI)
128 Megs of RAM |
12 Seconds
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| System
|
Performance
(EQ Rotation) |
Pentium
II 400
Diamond Voodoo2 12Megs
128 Megs of RAM |
9 Seconds
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| System
|
Performance
(EQ Rotation) |
Celeron
300a (overclocked to 374)
2 Diamond Voodoo2 12Megs (SLI)
128 Megs of RAM |
7 Seconds
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| System
|
Performance
(EQ Rotation) |
Celeron
300a (overclocked to 374)
TNT2 Xentor 32 Meg Ultra
128 Megs of RAM |
6 Seconds
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Prelude's
Benchmarks proved to be 2 seconds faster than Jeff's. As seen below...
| System
|
Performance
(EQ Rotation) |
AMD
K6-2 (300Mhz)
2 Diamond Voodoo2 12Megs (SLI)
128 Megs of RAM |
10Seconds
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Conclusion
So
what did we learn from all this? An overclocked Celeron is better
than an AMD K6-2? A Xentor Ultra TNT2 card is only 1 second better
than 2 Voodoo2's running SLI? Or did we learn that Wilson is a better
computer builder than Jeff? Well, I'm not sure either but you heard
it here first at gamelord.org.
So if you ever
hear of anyone using the Everquest Benchmark tests, you can thank
Jeff_ng and Prelude
for inventing such a precise way to measure benchmarking.
You heard it here first!
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