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(Review by MS, June 16, 2004) |
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The Performance Conundrum
Utilities can lie and go by what some configuration data tell it to display, and moreover, we did not have the necessary diagnostics files to establish beyond reasonable doubt whether, in fact, we (or anybody else) were capable of rescuscitating the catatonic four pipelines missing from the X800Pro core. We observed that even after closing the cut bridge, the performance did not waver, that is, we achieved (within the margins of error) the exact same benchmark results as before. All this changed as soon as we flashed to the new BIOS.
After flashing to the new BIOS, we ran Aquamark3 as a perfunctory test and .... saw a performance hit.
Top to bottom: AX-800Pro =>XT (maroon); AX-800Pro (turquois); RADEON 9800XT (yellow); GFFX5900 (blue); RADEON 9800 Pro (pink). The original AX-800Pro is the fastest card in the group with over 59 fps and the highest GFX performance index.
One swallow does not make a summer and one benchmark does not establish a performance profile either. As it turns out, the Aquamark3 results were extermely reproducible, albeit totally isolated since the trend shown above was reversed in all other benchmarks we further ran.
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