New ATI Drivers! 3286 for XP

[Ritteri&Bubbles]

Wow, ATI actually put out a new set of drivers, that have enable smoothvision.

With the drivers and 20013Dmark you may notice your benchmark scores go down,your FPS in Nature go up about 15-20 percent, and all games FPS go down by about 10 percent. The driver seem to work ok in terms of stability, smoothvision looks great enabled and works good, but boy do your FPS take a huge hit like expected. It may or may not matter as IMHO 60fps is the goal to hit for great smooth gameplay, but like I said all along this next generation feature should be on a card with 128mb of RAM and larger bus piping, like quad 64 bit or dual 128 bit pipes, all in all these drivers show some more promise, but already im waiting for the next driver batch.:rolleyes:

[Ritteri&Bubbles]

HOLD THE BOAT! After changing my AGP aperture setting from 64(which was the best setting with an older driver)to 256 I just ripped a 7803!!! All stock settings too! Hmmm...........ATI may be heading in the right direction after all..........


YOUR 3DMARK2001

RESULTS IN DETAIL




Project Name My Benchmark

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
DirectX Version 8.00

Mobo Manufacturer ABIT
Mobo Model 761-686B(KG7)

CPU AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 1535 Mhz
FSB 133 MHz

3D Accelerator RADEON 8500/RADEON 8500LE
Graphics Chipset ATI Radeon 8500
Driver Version 6.13.10.3286
Video Memory 64 MB

Resolution 1024x768 32bit
Texture Format 16bit
FSAA Disabled
Z-Buffer Depth 24bit
Frame Buffer Double
Rendering Pipeline D3D Pure Hardware T&L





3DMark Result 7803 3D marks

Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 117.5 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 41.4 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 134.8 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 80.3 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 112.0 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 48.7 FPS
Game 4 Nature 37.0 FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 863.5 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1929.7 MTexels/s

High Polygon Count (1 light) 33.1 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 9.7 MTriangles/s

Environment Bump Mapping 114.7 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping 99.8 FPS

Vertex Shader Speed 94.2 FPS
Pixel Shader Speed 118.3 FPS
Point Sprite Speed 27.9 MSprites/s

Published No



GamersHQ » Products » ORB » 3D Accelerator Comparison


3D ACCELERATOR

COMPARISON


BASED ON 3DMARK2001 RESULTS

The graph below compares the score of your current project to other PCs with the same processor but different 3D accelerators. The entries represent the average total score submitted to date for each chipset/processor combination.


3DMark Score Chipset


7803 100%
ATI Radeon 8500


7558 96%
NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 500


7544 96%
ATI Radeon 8500


7115 91%
NVIDIA GeForce3


7099 90%
NVIDIA Quadro DCC


6680 85%
NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200


4716 60%
NVIDIA Quadro2/Pro


4692 60%
NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra


4115 52%
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/Pro/Ti


3559 45%
ATI RADEON DDR


2747 35%
NVIDIA GeForce DDR


2670 34%
STMicro KYRO II


2637 33%
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400


2299 29%
NVIDIA GeForce SDR


1805 23%
NVIDIA nForce



Your Score



GamersHQ » Products » ORB » Processor Comparison


PROCESSOR COMPARISON


BASED ON 3DMARK2001 RESULTS

The graph below compares the score of your current project to other PCs with the same 3D accelerator but different processors. The entries represent the average total score submitted to date for each chipset/processor combination.


3DMark Score Processor


8330 106%
AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 1700 MHz


8150 104%
AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 1600 MHz


7803 100%
AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 1535 MHz


7788 99%
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1600 MHz


7544 96%
AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 1500 MHz


7451 95%
Intel Pentium 4 2000 MHz


7423 95%
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1500 MHz


7394 94%
Intel Pentium 4 1900 MHz


7362 94%
AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 1400 MHz


7256 92%
Intel Pentium 4 1800 MHz


7038 90%
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1400 MHz


6991 89%
Intel Pentium 4 1700 MHz


6921 88%
Intel Pentium 4 1600 MHz


6817 87%
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1300 MHz


6612 84%
Intel Pentium 4 1400 MHz


6555 84%
Intel Pentium 4 1500 MHz


6550 83%
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1200 MHz


6287 80%
Intel Pentium 4 1300 MHz


6136 78%
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1100 MHz


6117 78%
Intel Pentium III 1100 MHz


5848 74%
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1000 MHz


5796 74%
Intel Pentium III 1000 MHz


5795 74%
AMD Duron(tm) Processor 1000 MHz


5624 72%
Intel Pentium III 900 MHz


5428 69%
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 900 MHz


5353 68%
AMD Duron(tm) Processor 900 MHz


4915 62%
Intel Pentium III 800 MHz


4757 60%
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 800 MHz


4624 59%
Intel Pentium III 700 MHz


4361 55%
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 600 MHz



Your Score

[Kingslayer]

If I didn't know better, it sounds like your warmin up to ATI...