GPU Benchmark (WIP)

Tested across 2 platforms where possible.

Things tested:
Quake III Arena
Deus Ex too cpu limited
3DMark 2000
Maybe:
Incoming (windows + osx)
SiN (windows + os9):

Copier le fichier “rocket.dm2” dans “\base\demos”, activer console ( “²”), taper “disconnect”, puis “timedemo 1” puis “map rocket.dm2”

Methodology

Try to have a somewhat realistic but repeatable way of benchmarking ideally cross platform games.

Quake III Arena

Simple as, timedemo 1 in console, run demo. Use point release 130 so it matches Mac OS 9.

3DMark 2000

32-bit color, 24-bit depth, Hardware T&L

Test at:

800x600
1600x1200

Hardware

One Wintel and one PowerPC roughly equivalent in specs.

The Windows 98 PC:

  • Pentium 3 1.4GHz
  • Intel D815EPFV Motherboard
  • 512MB SDR RAM

nVIDIA Driver 45.23

The Mac

  • 1.8 GHz G4
  • “Digital Audio” Logic Board
  • 1GB SDR RAM
  • 120GB SSD

card list

Windows 98:

ATI RageXL 8MB PCI
3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB PCI
3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 16MB AGP
nVIDIA Geforce 2 MX 400 32MB AGP
nVIDIA GeForce 3 Ti 200 ??
nVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti 4600
ATI Radeon 9600
nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
nVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Mac OS 9.2

nVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 400 32MB
nVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti 4600 128MB

Results

GeForce 2 MX 400 (Pentium 3):

Quake III Arena
640x480 normal preset 136.2 FPS
800x600 high quality preset 90.2 FPS
1024x768 custom max 47.8 FPS
1600x1200 custom max 16.7 FPS

3DMark 2000
800x600 5225 3D marks
1600x1200 0 3D marks (not enough vram)

GeForce 4 Ti 4600 (Pentium 3):

Quake III Arena
640x480 normal preset 181.0 FPS
800x600 high quality preset 180.5 FPS
1024x768 custom max 170.2 FPS
1600x1200 custom max 138.6 FPS

3DMark 2000
800x600 10996 3D marks
1600x1200 7528 3D marks

Not appropriate

Deus Ex (too cpu limited, basically every result is the same, other than using the newer opengl library which has visual bugs)

Enable console, edit User.ini and set:

Tilde=Talk

Now Shift+Tilde will open the console (delete the “Say” it auto inserts).

Benchmark method:
1) Start new game on easy.
2) Talk to Paul, skip dialogue.
3) Once Paul is done, save the game.
4) Open console and timedemo 1
5) Load the save file
6) Run to UNATCO HQ
7) Front gate is the finish line, timedemo 0 then screenshot the results.

32-bit Color, max settings. D3D with UseVSync=True which ironically turns vsync off (thanks Unreal Engine, janky as always).

TODO: Detail textures off?