Tested on
| PIII-500 with 2 Wicked3D Voodoo2 boards in SLI configuration.
Drivers:
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K7-800 with Monster 3d 2 and Magic 3d 2 in SLI config
Drivers:
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Timedemo results:
| Resolution | Quality
settings |
3dfx | WickedGL
(1) |
WickedGL
(2) |
Improvement | ||||
| demo001 | |||||||||
| 640x480 | default | 47.6 | *74.3 | * 51.8 | 65.0 | 50.0 | 61.8 | +9% |
-13%
|
| maximum | 28.0 | 24.5 | * 50.9 | *54.7 | 49.1 | 52.2 | +82% |
+123%
|
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| 800x600 | default | 42.4 | 62.3 | * 49.5 | *58.9 | 48.7 | 57.4 | +17% |
-5%
|
| maximum | 26.3 | 22.4 | * 48.3 | 44.6 | 47.8 | *45.5 | +84% |
+103%
|
|
| 960x720 | default | 34.2 | 43.1 | * 44.4 | +30% | ||||
| maximum | 23.4 | 41.8 | * 43.3 | +85% | |||||
| 1024x768 | default | 30.6 | 41.0 | 39.6 | 40.9 | * 41.4 | *41.1 | +35% |
+1%
|
| maximum | 22.0 | 18.7 | 38.4 | 30.6 | * 40.3 | *32.0 | +83% |
+71%
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| average fps | default | 38.7 | 59.2 | 46.0 | *54.9 | *46.1 | 53.4 | ||
| maximum | 24.9 | 21.9 | 44.9 | *43.3 | *45.1 | 43.2 | |||
Default quality settings:
You will notice the intense competition between these two CPU's, the
main contributing factor is SSE support.
Quake 3 has built in support for SSE (almost like POD and MMX,
I still think that is the only game that was
programmed that way ;) I could be wrong ! Not the star wars racer)
The other factor is that I am using hacked SLI drivers to get my 2
voodoo's to talk to each other,
I have a:
Over all the K7 800 wins on the default setting, and the PIII 500 wins on the maximum setting
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