On Friday 31 January 2003 07:59 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Okay, I've got 2 systems here I'm looking at: > > Shuttle MB Soyo MB > 384 megs Ram 384 megs DDR Ram > 900mhz Athlon CPU 1.3 ghz Duron CPU > SB Live audio Onboard audio > 56x IDE CD 56x IDE CD > floppy floppy > 20 Gig Seagate HD 30 Gig Maxtor HD > Nvidia Geforce 2-32 megs Ram Nvidia Geforce 2-64 megs Ram > (made by Verto-PNY) (made by MSI) > 4191 drivers Drivers that come with v9.0 > > Now I know that GLXGears is not the best thing in the world to use for a > comparison, but the results surprised me: > > 2600fps 2200fps > > Why would the system in column 1 outperform (video wise) the machine in the > 2nd column? It seems like it would be the other way around? (could the > drivers make that much of a difference?) > > Thanks! :-)
Other than Anne's suggestion of the Athlon's on chip cache being doubled in comparison to the Duron; what is the chipset on the Shuttle? That may make a difference. Also the drivers actually *will* make a difference, the Athlon is using the NVidia 4191 driver, while the Duron is using the generic/open source "good enough without tainting the kernel" set that shipped with the operating system. Reflect on that one Dark Lord; a "budget processor" running non optimized drivers is running a 3d app at nearly 85% of the efficiency of an optimized driver running the same operating system. I think both are a good indication that greater things are still to come, don't you? The final point I want to make; have you read any comparisons on hardware review sites of the differences between GeForce cards from different manufacturers? There are differences and even though the tests for the most part are done under Windows the drivers used are always the latest stable offerings from NVidia. It may just be that part of the difference is something like VRAM speed difference on the two different boards as well. Lot's of variables, not enough for me to base anything other than these SIWAGes on. (semi intelligent wild @$$ guesses) :-) Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org The day you leave work early to make it to class on time, the sensei will be sick -- Murphy's Laws of Martial Arts n°4
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