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3dsmax 8.0

As we mentioned in our review of the Quadro FX 4500 pair, the benchmark suite originally supplied with 3dsmax 5.0 as part of the learning and training package is somewhat outdated. That is, upon launching the application, it will generate an error message about an outdated file format, moreover, some of the scenes don't run at all or if they do, only after manual reconfiguration of the data path for the necessary textures etc. In order to avoid any skew of our results that could stem from importing a different file than that used in the original benchmark, we only used those applications that ran natively in 3dsmax 8.0 and discarded those that needed modifications. As a result, we only have eight of the original set of ~ 20 scenes that we benchmarked using FRAPS. Aside from these obvious issues, there may be differences in the porting of the files to the new version but those issues are outside of our control. All applications were run at 1280 x 1024 screen resolution. We used the latest version of nVidia's Maxtreme drivers (8.00.03) . All results are given as fps (higher is better).

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For comparison, we show data from older professsional graphics cards that went through our labs over the past few years. Arguably, also the platforms were different at the time, however, even then, the graphics cards were the limiting factors for performance. The Quadro FX4500 data, though, are directly comparable to those of the FX1400 since they were obtained using the identical system configuration.

The 8Spots scene is incorrectly rendered by most graphics cards, unless they recognize and execute the "overshoot flag". Correct execution of this feature does require the installation of the Maxtreme driver update.

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