- Joined
- Feb 16, 2002
- Location
- Kent, England
For any of you guys wondering if it's worth upgrading to a Granny Bay board here are some benchies from mine to help you decide!!
For me, upgrading to GB was well worth it. I didn't get a massive speed improvement from my old i845E board but it's a much nicer board than my old BD7II IMO. For you guys already running DDR400+ on your i845X boards though it may not be worth the money. The point of having the benchmark numbers here is not for some kind of childish contest (naaahh, mine is faster than yours) but to help anyone decide if they want to bother with GB. Personally I'm very pleased with it but I do have some reservations about it's performance. Given the uber-bandwidth I can achieve it is extremely puzzling that the performance isn't higher. I don't know if this is because the Plumas (E7500) workstation memory controller it uses isn't designed for performance but rather for stability maybe? I mean it's not slow but it should be a lot faster IMO. Maybe some BIOS updates will get things moving a little faster but I doubt it.
So here are the numbers you're dying to see, I hope they help you make your minds-up about GB and if you're all going to splash your cash on one. The raw numbers are followed by the screenies. Enjoy friends..........
GB180 Benchmark Results
Asus P4G8X Deluxe, 180MHz FSB (720FSB), Pentium 4 2.26B @ 3.06GHz (1.65v), Kingmax PC2700 DDR SDRAM @ DCDDR360 (CAS2/2/2/5 Turbo, 2.7v).
Leadtek GeForce4 Ti4600. NVIDIA 41.09 Det. Default Speed - 300/650. Overclocked Speed - 315/735.
Windows XP Pro SP1
Benchmark Programs
ScienceMark beta 2.0 - Run standard memory benchmark. DL - http://www.sciencemark.org
3DMark2001SE Build.300 - Run with standard settings. DL - http://www.madonion.com
PCMark2002 - Run with standard settings. DL - http://www.madonion.com
POV-Ray v3.5 - Run built-in benchmark program POVBENCH. DL - http://www.povray.org
Prime95 v22.12.1 - Run built-in benchmark. DL - http://www.mersenne.org
Super PI v1.1 - Calculate 1M places. DL - http://www.pcekspert.com/download/get-32.html
Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo - Run benchmark.exe with Anand's MaxDetail settings applied to all batch files.
Results
ScienceMark
Bandwidth
L1 Cache - 15,662.28 MB/s
L2 Cache - 18,972.11MB/s
Memory - 3777.63MB/s
Latency
L1 Cache - 2 cycles
L2 Cache - 2/10/20/24/27 cycles
Memory - 4/15/56/217/224 cycles
3DMark2001SE
GF Default Speed - 14,619 3DMarks
GF @ 315/735 OC - 15,028 3DMarks
GF @ 315/735 OC - 18,755 3DMarks (640x480x16, Z16, low D3D detail)
PCMark2002
CPU Score - 7528
Mem Score - 8522
HDD Score - 1637
POV-Ray v3.5
Render Averaged 80.96 PPS over 147456 pixels
Total Time: 0 hours 30 minutes 29.0 seconds (1829 seconds)
Prime95
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz
CPU speed: 3060.14 MHz
CPU features: RDTSC, CMOV, PREFETCH, MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 cache size: 8 KB
L2 cache size: 512 KB
L1 cache line size: 64 bytes
L2 cache line size: 64 bytes
TLBS: 64
Prime95 version 22.12, RdtscTiming=1
Best time for 256K FFT length: 7.835 ms.
Best time for 320K FFT length: 10.400 ms.
Best time for 384K FFT length: 12.573 ms.
Best time for 448K FFT length: 15.107 ms.
Best time for 512K FFT length: 17.059 ms.
Best time for 640K FFT length: 22.111 ms.
Best time for 768K FFT length: 26.859 ms.
Best time for 896K FFT length: 33.161 ms.
Best time for 1024K FFT length: 35.822 ms.
Best time for 1280K FFT length: 50.975 ms.
Best time for 1536K FFT length: 62.751 ms.
Best time for 1792K FFT length: 77.967 ms.
Super PI
1 Million places in 57 seconds
UT2K3 Demo
GF @ Stock
640x480 - Flyby = 233.40, Botmatch = 79.95
800x600 - Flyby = 225.55, Botmatch = 80.07
1024x768- Flyby = 181.05, Botmatch = 78.11
GF @ 315/735
640x480 - Flyby = 1854.17*, Botmatch = 80.26
800x600 - Flyby = 229.90, Botmatch = 80.24
1024x768- Flyby = 191.67, Botmatch = 79.11
* WTF??
Now the screenies....................
ScienceMark v2.0 beta
3DMark 2001SE Build.330
GF4 Stock
GF4 OC
For me, upgrading to GB was well worth it. I didn't get a massive speed improvement from my old i845E board but it's a much nicer board than my old BD7II IMO. For you guys already running DDR400+ on your i845X boards though it may not be worth the money. The point of having the benchmark numbers here is not for some kind of childish contest (naaahh, mine is faster than yours) but to help anyone decide if they want to bother with GB. Personally I'm very pleased with it but I do have some reservations about it's performance. Given the uber-bandwidth I can achieve it is extremely puzzling that the performance isn't higher. I don't know if this is because the Plumas (E7500) workstation memory controller it uses isn't designed for performance but rather for stability maybe? I mean it's not slow but it should be a lot faster IMO. Maybe some BIOS updates will get things moving a little faster but I doubt it.
So here are the numbers you're dying to see, I hope they help you make your minds-up about GB and if you're all going to splash your cash on one. The raw numbers are followed by the screenies. Enjoy friends..........
GB180 Benchmark Results
Asus P4G8X Deluxe, 180MHz FSB (720FSB), Pentium 4 2.26B @ 3.06GHz (1.65v), Kingmax PC2700 DDR SDRAM @ DCDDR360 (CAS2/2/2/5 Turbo, 2.7v).
Leadtek GeForce4 Ti4600. NVIDIA 41.09 Det. Default Speed - 300/650. Overclocked Speed - 315/735.
Windows XP Pro SP1
Benchmark Programs
ScienceMark beta 2.0 - Run standard memory benchmark. DL - http://www.sciencemark.org
3DMark2001SE Build.300 - Run with standard settings. DL - http://www.madonion.com
PCMark2002 - Run with standard settings. DL - http://www.madonion.com
POV-Ray v3.5 - Run built-in benchmark program POVBENCH. DL - http://www.povray.org
Prime95 v22.12.1 - Run built-in benchmark. DL - http://www.mersenne.org
Super PI v1.1 - Calculate 1M places. DL - http://www.pcekspert.com/download/get-32.html
Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo - Run benchmark.exe with Anand's MaxDetail settings applied to all batch files.
Results
ScienceMark
Bandwidth
L1 Cache - 15,662.28 MB/s
L2 Cache - 18,972.11MB/s
Memory - 3777.63MB/s
Latency
L1 Cache - 2 cycles
L2 Cache - 2/10/20/24/27 cycles
Memory - 4/15/56/217/224 cycles
3DMark2001SE
GF Default Speed - 14,619 3DMarks
GF @ 315/735 OC - 15,028 3DMarks
GF @ 315/735 OC - 18,755 3DMarks (640x480x16, Z16, low D3D detail)
PCMark2002
CPU Score - 7528
Mem Score - 8522
HDD Score - 1637
POV-Ray v3.5
Render Averaged 80.96 PPS over 147456 pixels
Total Time: 0 hours 30 minutes 29.0 seconds (1829 seconds)
Prime95
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz
CPU speed: 3060.14 MHz
CPU features: RDTSC, CMOV, PREFETCH, MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 cache size: 8 KB
L2 cache size: 512 KB
L1 cache line size: 64 bytes
L2 cache line size: 64 bytes
TLBS: 64
Prime95 version 22.12, RdtscTiming=1
Best time for 256K FFT length: 7.835 ms.
Best time for 320K FFT length: 10.400 ms.
Best time for 384K FFT length: 12.573 ms.
Best time for 448K FFT length: 15.107 ms.
Best time for 512K FFT length: 17.059 ms.
Best time for 640K FFT length: 22.111 ms.
Best time for 768K FFT length: 26.859 ms.
Best time for 896K FFT length: 33.161 ms.
Best time for 1024K FFT length: 35.822 ms.
Best time for 1280K FFT length: 50.975 ms.
Best time for 1536K FFT length: 62.751 ms.
Best time for 1792K FFT length: 77.967 ms.
Super PI
1 Million places in 57 seconds
UT2K3 Demo
GF @ Stock
640x480 - Flyby = 233.40, Botmatch = 79.95
800x600 - Flyby = 225.55, Botmatch = 80.07
1024x768- Flyby = 181.05, Botmatch = 78.11
GF @ 315/735
640x480 - Flyby = 1854.17*, Botmatch = 80.26
800x600 - Flyby = 229.90, Botmatch = 80.24
1024x768- Flyby = 191.67, Botmatch = 79.11
* WTF??
Now the screenies....................
ScienceMark v2.0 beta
3DMark 2001SE Build.330
GF4 Stock
GF4 OC