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| P4 2.0 GHz Platform Production Boards i845, i850, VIA P4X266 | ||
| (Review by MS, 9/2001) |
Caligari TrueSpace 4.2
A CAD application stronly optimized for SSE that would almost by definition benefit the Rambus architecture. However, as it turns out, memory bandwidth is not the quintessence for performance here, as the Brookdale chipset does fairly well compared to some other applications shown earlier. The big surprise in TrueSpace 4.2 was the P4X266 chipset, outperforming the i850 system by some 12%. Surprisingly well also fared the dual Palomino system with the caveat of the difference between Win2K and Win98 causing some OS rather than hardware related performance differences.
TrueSpace 4.2 Direct3D benchmark
Average frame rate of Caligari Direct3D benchmark. The undisputed winner is the P4X266-based Shuttle AV40 while the Brookdale chipset in PC133 Mode is beaten only marginally by the i850 platform
TrueSpace 4.2 OpenGL
Using OpenGL, the difference between the i850 and the P4X266 is smaller and once again, the Brookdale-based boards do fairly well. Nonetheless, the average fps achieved by the dual Athlon system somewhat excludes a mere limitation of the graphics card.
Ulead MediaStudioPro 6.0
Runtime in seconds. The i850 takes the lead again but only by about 1% over the P4X266 (runtime is shown in full seconds only). Scores for the "Tiger" were achieved in single CPU configuration (better, there was no difference between single and dual CPU performance). The Brookdale-based boards trail by 31 and 12%, respectively, behind the i850 however, what is more important is the huge performance gain between running the SDRAM memory sychronous or in 4/3 mode.
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