Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
One would tend to think that VSYNC was enabled for this benchmark, but honestly, while it runs, we see FRAPS hitting higher and lower numbers. To be fair, in the future, we may start looking at this benchmark in OpenGL mode. We spoke with Blizzard recently, and they mentioned that the two rendering methods converged on visual quality. They maintain that the only differences are due to inherent properties of the different APIs, which result in graphics not being able to create duplicate scenes, pixel for pixel, in Warcraft III.Regardless of all that, there's no real difference between any of the top cards in either of these benchmarks.
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kherman - Monday, June 28, 2004 - link
How did this get eh NV45 label? Shouldn't this be the NV40p or sum'n?Minotaar - Monday, June 28, 2004 - link
Pentium Pro did NOT have on-package cache. Pentium Pro had On-DIE cache. Pentium 2 took a step backwards and had on-package cache (that huge ugly slot garbage, with the triple fans from OC co's like Glacier? The side two fans cooled cache chips on the side). It wasnt until Socket P3 that on-die cache came back.Thats why celeron happened the way it did. it started off as a p2 with none of the on-package cache. Remember the ol' celly 266 that OC'd to 450, and for some lucky ones 504? Well That was just the P2 card without the cache on the sides - the sides were empty.
Pentium Pro also had the advantage of clock speed cache, whereas P2's cache was bus speed. But I digress. The article has an inconsistancy.
Brucmack - Monday, June 28, 2004 - link
Well, you're not going to gain anything in the near future with PCIe, so if you already have an AGP card, don't bother.It would probably be a good idea to get a PCIe card if you're upgrading to the new Intel chipset though. The boards that have both PCIe and AGP slots are running the AGP slot off of the PCI bus, so there will be a slight performance penalty associated with that.
GhandiInstinct - Monday, June 28, 2004 - link
So is AGP8x faster or better than PCIe, because that's what I got from those earlier benchmarks. Or will drivers and optimizations change that in the future?Basically, is it worth while(money) to purchase PCIe now?