3DMark03 is out

[Animal]

Get it from majorgeeks.com if you can

my score is a puny 1,600


it looks AMAZING. And as a treat for us, part of the benchmark is a scene of 109's attacking a formation of B-17 and ponies.
In demo mode, it is quite simply the most beautiful WWII combat graphics I have ever seen displayed in real time and not pre-rendered.

[Eagler]

Originally posted by Animal
Get it from majorgeeks.com if you can

my score is a puny 1,600


it looks AMAZING. And as a treat for us, part of the benchmark is a scene of 109's attacking a formation of B-17 and ponies.
In demo mode, it is quite simply the most beautiful WWII combat graphics I have ever seen displayed in real time and not pre-rendered.

link for the lazy

[San]

http://www.futuremark.com/download/


It rocks!

[Pfunk]

You wont get a good transfer rate from major geeks or any other mirror madonion provides, so here ya go, I download from this one at 160kb/s




http://files.gameland.ee/test/3DMark03.exe

[Mini D]

Originally posted by Animal
my score is a puny 1,600

Almost as puny... 1693

[Octavius]

holy crap, 176mb!

... downloading now...

[Staga]

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=38453

1639

XP2400 oc'd to +2,1GHz + 768DDR + Gf4Ti4200 64mb +WinXP SP1

[Skuzzy]

4932

[Mini D]

Ah... I was waiting for a 9700 owner to post.

MiniD

[Octavius]

I like the buff attack.  Anyone notice the top turret glass on the B17?  It kind of refracts the 'light' coming through it... neat effects!

I got a 2400 something.

EDIT:  AMD T-bird 1.2ghz, 384mb ddr, K7S5A mobo, Radeon 9500 pro, win xp

[Horn]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
4932

So you installed DX9?

dh

[Animal]

You have to have it installed.
He got a better score because his video card is a true DX9 card.

[Pfunk]

Originally posted by Animal
You have to have it installed.
He got a better score because his video card is a true DX9 card.

Hate to burst your bubble but 3dmark2003 only uses 1 test for directx9 that being the nature scene and even then not fully.  Hardocp will not use it for benchmarks, Nvidia wont use it, nor will pretty much any other hardware site.





3DMark03, a DirectX 9 Benchmark?" This is one question that we really must ask ourselves. Game 1 is a very simple DX7 test that is not representative of any current games. Game Tests 2 and 3 are DX8.1 but use Pixel Shader 1.4, which is not used by any games we are aware of and will not be to our knowledge. Game 4 is a hybrid of DX8/DX9. It is these four tests that determine the overall score. Only one game test in this benchmark DirectX 9 and then only partially.

Is 3DMark03 really a good indication of what “Real World” gaming is? Is 3DMark03 really "forward looking"?

[Skuzzy]

NVidia pulled out of the development of 3dmark2k3 in December.  They did not like the 3dmark guys using PS 1.4 and later for the tests as PS 1.4 is not supported on any NVidia card except the FX.  ATI has supported PS 1.4 from the 8500 line forward.

And with the canning of the Ultra FX version they come up way short in performance numbers.

Overall, I have never put much faith in 3dmark anyways.  If you try to tune for it, you could end up hurting real game performance.  But as a tool for relative comparisons on your computer it is helpful.

Yeah, I installed DX9 just to see what the tests look like and then went back to Dx8.1b.

[Mini D]

All of the 8500's support it?  I'll run it on my other system and see how it does.  Its a 2g 8500 vs a 2.53g NF4.  If it does better... I'll have to call it bogus... because there is little comparison between the two systems.

MiniD