R8500 benchmarks on Pentium 3 700/933

[lifeguard1999]

Quake3
Win98SE
Pentium III 700E on Asus P3V4X
High Quality
1280x1024x32
DirectX8
.7191

Retail Radeon 32 MB DDR
69.2 fps @ 165/165
77.4 fps @ 196/196

Retail Radeon 8500
88 fps @ 275/275
89 fps @ 300/300

This may not look too good at first. But now look at 1600x1200...

Retail Radeon 8500 @ 1600x1200 for Pentium 3 700MHz
80 fps @ 275/275
82 fps @ 300/300

It looks like that the bottleneck on my system is not the video card, it is instead CPU bound. This can be seen because there is very little drop off as the resolution increases. A quick way to check this out is to bump up the CPU.

Retail Radeon 8500 @ 1600x1200 for Pentium 3 933MHz
93.7 fps @ 275/275
97.8 fps @ 300/300

A 33% increase in CPU speed yeilds a 17% increase in frames per second.

I really do wish that video card reviews would give a CPU scaling test since not everyone has a 1.4 GHz CPU. AT used to do that, but they have quit for several of the last reviews.

Then again, for the 8500, I wished that they had talked about some of the other features of the card in the initial review: Hydravision, Truform, TV-out, etc.

3DMark Result 5919 3D marks

Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 81.7 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 24.2 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 127.3 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 66.2 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 84.8 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 35.7 FPS
Game 4 Nature 22.0 FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 674.8 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1791.1 MTexels/s

High Polygon Count (1 light) 26.5 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 9.5 MTriangles/s

Environment Bump Mapping 101.2 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping 82.3 FPS

Vertex Shader Speed 81.0 FPS
Pixel Shader Speed 78.3 FPS
Point Sprite Speed 27.9 MSprites/s

 

[jamesbond007]

Good investigation...you may want to check the header of this thread..."R8500 enchmarks on Pentium 3 700/933" <<<something wrong there.

What CPU were you using when you performed the 3DMark2001 bench?

Thanks.