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| AMD MPX Production Boards ASUS A7M266D vs. MSI K7D-L vs. Tyan Tiger MPX: Dual Power at 1900+ | ||
| (Review by MS, March 11, 2002) |
Gaming Performance
Our favorite benchmark, that is Quake3 Arena is somewhat disqualified from this contest, we had some numbers in the beginning of this review and will leave it like that. There are other benchmarks, though that can be used. 3DMark2001 has just gone into its second iteration, that is the SE or second edition addign a few nifty effects and a new Pixel Shader benchmark. Even though it is heavily depending on the AGP card performance, it shows some of the system performance differences quite well.
3DMark2001 SE
At default settings, the Tyan Tiger MPX falls marginally behind the MSI K7D-L and takes last place. Pulling all registers to squeeze the most performance out of the system, including overclocking to 140 MHz FSB, the Tiger MPX takes a very solid lead here only to be overpowered by the ASUS A7M266D at a higher clock speed.
MDK2
To minimize the influence of the graphics card, we ran MDK2 at 640 x 480 x 16bpp. The score for the ASUS A7M266D was achieved in Turbo Mode, in Normal Mode, the same system scored 219.2 fps. At 140 MHz, the ASUS A7M266 pulled even with the Tyan Tiger MPX but got slightly ahead at 141 MHz.
Caligari TrueSpace 5.1 (Vase Scene)
Runtime in seconds, lower is better. Caligari TrueSpace5.1 only depends on the CPU floating point power and therefore, it is no surprise that all systems are equally fast unless the clock speed is changed. As reference points, some scores from a dual MP 1200 (Tyan Tiger MP), a single XP 2000+ (ASUS A7V266E), a 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 Northwood and a P4 2.0 Willamette (ASUS P4B266) are given (for those that don't know the value of an SMP system).
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