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Early test
of TNT ref 1.88 drivers
First of all, a few words from a tired tester...
These new reference drivers from NVidia finally work on Ali chipset, not
like those 1.73 and 1.76 drivers only giving me the black screen...
Yet the Ali chipset still has it's stability problems in OpenGL, but of
course it might also be my old P5A mobo that's messing around... And,
since the K6-III needs a lot of power it might also be an issue since
I felt stabililty was going down @ 450 MHz, might be the TNT not getting
enough power... But got all Q2 scores except for one, Crusher @ 1024 with
fully o/c V3400 TNT card.
Going to put up more scores later but for those of you interested... read
on.
Aiming for scores from Unreal and Half-Life as well...
Hardware setup:
3DMark 99:
Fast memory timings: 3732 / 6848
TNT o/c to 120 / 130: 3816 / 6901
Quake 2 ver 3.20
Sound quality low
No tweaks in Q2
| AMD K6-III 400 MHz Demo 1 |
640x480 |
800x600 |
1024x768 |
| TNT at default speed |
70.6 |
50.9 |
32.9 |
| TNT with fast memory timings |
72.9 |
54.5 |
35.1 |
| TNT o/c to 120/130 |
77.5 |
66.4 |
44.0 |
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| AMD K-III 450 MHz Demo 1 |
640x480 |
800x600 |
1024x768 |
| TNT at default speed |
72,6 |
50,9 |
32,9 |
| TNT with fast memory timings |
76,0 |
54,5 |
35,1 |
| TNT o/c to 120/130 |
83,1 |
67,1 |
44,0 |
A few things to notice here....
The higher CPU speed hardly makes any difference at all with these
drivers, only @ 640x480 I could get any reliable difference. And we
can also see that it finally starts to pay off to o/c your poor video
card :)
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| AMD K6-III 400 MHz Crusher |
640x480 |
800x600 |
1024x768 |
| TNT at default speed |
40,6 |
39,0 |
29,8 |
| TNT with fast memory timings |
40,4 |
39,4 |
31,4 |
| TNT o/c to 120/130 |
40,9 |
40,6 |
36,9 |
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| AMD K-III 450 MHz Demo 1 |
640x480 |
800x600 |
1024x768 |
| TNT at default speed |
44,1 |
41,4 |
29,8 |
| TNT with fast memory timings |
43,8 |
42,0 |
31,6 |
| TNT o/c to 120/130 |
44,0 |
43,6 |
N/A :( |
And the Crusher scores....
A few things being different here, first of all we can clearly see
that it takes advantage of the higher CPU speed in a much better way
than it did in Demo1, draw your own conclusions from that but Crusher
is surely a lot more CPU dependant than Demo1....
Also, hardly any speed gains from TNT o/c until you reach higher resolutions
such as 1024x768, but then the o/c improvement starts showing up like
in Demo1. Unfortunately no score yet from 1024x768 and fully o/c,
going to try again later. |
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