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Title: Doom 3 vs. your video card Post by: Nebu on August 11, 2004, 09:01:12 AM I ran into this article a few days ago and thought some of you might find it interesting... not so much as it relates to Doom 3, but more to see how the different graphics cards faired under testing conditions.
ENJOY! (http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040809/index.html) Title: Doom 3 vs. your video card Post by: schild on August 11, 2004, 09:16:33 AM Awesome, there's my card.
Dead fucking last in almost all of the benchmarks. Though, I'll admit, I started hitting 40fps consistantly once I made those changes to how much memory was commited to textures. Title: Doom 3 vs. your video card Post by: SurfD on August 11, 2004, 10:11:15 AM So where would you throw a 128 meg 9800 Pro in there? Would it go somewhere between the 9600xt and the 9800xt, or between the 9800xt and the x800 pro?
Title: Doom 3 vs. your video card Post by: SirBruce on August 11, 2004, 10:56:48 AM It would go between the 9600XT and the 9800XT. The 9800 Pro is almost as good as the 9800XT, but remember you'll only have 128MB so Medium Quality only.
Bruce Title: Doom 3 vs. your video card Post by: Trippy on August 11, 2004, 12:36:22 PM Quote from: SirBruce It would go between the 9600XT and the 9800XT. The 9800 Pro is almost as good as the 9800XT, but remember you'll only have 128MB so Medium Quality only. Bruce I know THG copied those quality settings from an ID programmer's plan file but they can't possibly be correct. My DOOM 3 install defaulted to High Quality on a 9600 Pro 128 MB card, albeit at 640 x 480 resolution. I changed it to 800 x 600 at High quality (didn't like the rendering of the text at 640) and things run fine on an XP 2000+ though I do have 1 GB of RAM and DOOM 3 uses every last bit of it. Title: Doom 3 vs. your video card Post by: SirBruce on August 11, 2004, 12:48:21 PM Well I don't think those were meant to be hard limits just recommendations to make sure all the textures are on-card for each level. But, I dunno, maybe 128MB is fine for High Level.
Bruce Title: Doom 3 vs. your video card Post by: Shockeye on August 11, 2004, 01:52:13 PM Too bad THG's article used a P4 3.2ghz for all their tests. I'd like to see CPU scaling in addition to the various video cards all rolled up in the same article.
Title: Doom 3 vs. your video card Post by: Trippy on August 11, 2004, 08:55:33 PM Quote from: Shockeye Too bad THG's article used a P4 3.2ghz for all their tests. I'd like to see CPU scaling in addition to the various video cards all rolled up in the same article. AnandTech published some DOOM 3 CPU benchmarks here: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2149 It's not a '3-D' test (FPS by CPU by video card) since the video card is fixed but it does give you sense of how the different CPUs compare. HardOCP has come closest to doing a full CPU by video card comparison that I've seen but it still doesn't have a lot of data points: http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQ0 |