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1996-2025
by TSW
(Nikolay Tuzhilin)

Last updated: 22.11.2008

3DMark 2003

All tests run at default benchmark and driver settings (1024x768 32bit color, no AA, no post-processing, 4x anisotropy):

  GeForce 7600GS 256M,
Athlon XP 2800+ (o/c)		 Radeon 9500Pro,
Athlon XP 2800+		 GeForce 6200 128M,
Athlon XP 2800+ (o/c)		 GMA950 i945G,
Intel Pentium 4 3GHz		 GMA950 i945G,
Intel Core2 Duo 6600 (o/c)		 GMA3000 G965,
Intel Core2 Duo 6400		 GMA3000 G965,
Intel Core2 Duo 6400 (o/c)		 GMA3000 G965,
Intel Core2 Duo 6400		 NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

Settings
Driver Version 91.47 WinXP - - 14.25 WinXP 14.25 WinXP 14.25.50 WinXP 14.25.50 WinXP 15.6 Vista (x86), h/w vertex 7.15.11.6369 Vista (x86)
CPU Frequency 2190 MHz 2255 MHz 2170 MHz 3000 MHz 3000 MHz 2130 MHz 2416 MHz 2130 MHz 2130 MHz
GPU Frequency 400 MHz 290 MHz 350 MHz 400 MHz 400 MHz 400 (667) MHz ? MHz 400 (667) MHz 675/1450 Mhz
VRAM Frequency 400 MHz 284 MHz 500 MHz - - 333 MHz 302 MHz 333 MHz 1000 MHz

Game Tests
3DMark Score 8125 3DMarks 3810 3DMarks 2520 3DMarks 1580 3DMarks 2810 3DMarks 1840 3DMarks 1870 3DMarks 1990 3DMarks 17958 3DMarks
GT1 - Wings of Fury 188 fps 133 fps 87 fps 60 fps 100 fps 62 fps 61 fps 62 fps 379 fps
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 60 fps 23 fps 14 fps 11.5 fps 20 fps 12.5 fps 12.5 fps 14 fps 141 fps
GT3 - Troll's Lair 54 fps 22 fps 13 fps 9.5 fps 17.5 fps 11 fps 11 fps 12 fps 110 fps
GT4 - Mother Nature 52 fps 24 fps 19 fps 7 fps 14 fps 11 fps 11.5 fps 11.5 fps 125  fps

CPU Tests
CPU Score 650 CPUMarks 576 CPUMarks 640 CPUMarks 564 CPUMarks 1218 CPUMarks 750 CPUMarks 810 CPUMarks 820 CPUMarks 1424 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1 71 fps 62 fps 70 fps 54 fps 109.5 fps 71.5 fps 76 fps 69 fps 135 fps
CPU Test 1 12 fps 10 fps 11 fps 11 fps 26 fps 15.5 fps 17 fps 18 fps 29 fps

Feature Tests
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 1400 MTexels/s 800 MTexels/s 500 MTexels/s 1500 MTexels/s 1900 MTexels/s 700 MTexels/s 700 MTexels/s 700 MTexels/s 2600 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 4500 MTexels/s 1800 MTexels/s 1300 MTexels/s 1500 MTexels/s 1900 MTexels/s 1700 MTexels/s 1800 MTexels/s 1600 MTexels/s 8500 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader 25 fps 14 fps 14 fps 3 fps 7 fps 5.5 fps 6.5 fps 6.5 fps 63 fps
Pixel Shader 2.0 178 fps 34 fps 42 fps 9,5 fps 13.5 fps 11.5 fps 11 fps 12 fps 244 fps
Ragtroll 33 fps 15 fps 9.5 fps 6 fps 12 fps 10 fps 10 fps 10.5 fps 71 fps
Sound Tests
No sounds 37 fps 39 fps - 34 fps 63.5 fps 43 fps 46 fps - -
24 sounds 35 fps 35 fps - 31 fps 60 fps 41 fps 43 fps - -
60 sounds 32 fps 32 fps - - - - - - -

If one overclocks Core2 Duo CPU up to 2416MHz but slows down memory to keep it inside specification (at 302MHz) 3DMark overall result does not change! It supports the fact that integrated graphics performance greatly depends on memory subsystem.

G965 has programmable structure and supports hardware vertex and pixel shaders, but has low fillrate. So in simple tests old G945 has higher FPS!

Impact of driver version on performance result is significant. E.g. the multi-texturing fillrate with 14.25 driver version was just 1000MTexels/s which is much lower then even G945. With version 14.25.50 the fillrate was increased to reasonable 1700MTexels/s. And by the way, Intel promised some time ago to release drivers with support of hardware T&L in G965 which present drivers are ignore!

And now (July`07) some preliminary results with hardware shaders support with beta drivers 15.6 for Windows Vista (x86). Obviously with 3DMark 2003 hardware support is slower then  software emulation. It was the long problem with which Intel fought for the last year. So they need to archive at least the speed of software emulation to prove that X3000 platform is what it claimed.

3DMark 2006

All tests run at default benchmark and driver settings (1024x768 32bit color, no AA, 4x anisotropy, 3.0 vertex and pixel shaders):

  GeForce 7600GS 256M,
Athlon XP 2800+ (o/c)		 GeForce 6200 128M,
Athlon XP 2800+ (o/c)		 GMA3000 G965,
Intel Core2 Duo 6400 (o/c)		 GMA3000 G965,
Intel Core2 Duo 6400 (o/c)		 GMA3000 G965,
Intel Core2 Duo 6400

Settings
Driver Version - - 14.25.50 WinXP 14.25.50 WinXP 15.4 Vista (x86)
Force software vertex shader No No Yes Yes Yes
CPU Frequency 2193 MHz 2193 MHz 2240 MHz 2240 MHz 2130 MHz
GPU Frequency 400 MHz 350 MHz ? MHz ? MHz 400 (667) MHz
VRAM Frequency 400 MHz 500 MHz 350 MHz 350 MHz 333 MHz

Score
3DMark Score 2450 3DMarks 450 3DMarks 650 3DMarks 540 3DMarks 730 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score 1080 210 200 170 210
HDR/SM3.0 Score 1010 - 260 200 300
CPU Score 740 740 1870 1870 1720
Game Score
GT1 - Return To Proxycon (SM2.0) 9 fps 1.4 fps 1.6 fps 1.4 fps 1.7 fps
GT2 - Firefly Forest (SM2.0) 9 fps 2.2 fps 1.7 fps 1.5 fps 1.9 fps
CPU1 - Red Valley (CPU) 0.2 fps 0.2 fps 0.6 fps 0.6 fps 0.6 fps
CPU2 - Red Valley (CPU) 0.4 fps 0.4 fps 0.9 fps 0.9 fps 0.9 fps
HDR1 - Canyon Flight (HDR/SM3.0) 9 fps - 2.5 fps 2 fps 2.5 fps
HDR2 - Deep Freeze (HDR/SM3.0) 11.5 fps - 2.5 fps 2 fps 3.5 fps

Feature Tests
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 1650 MTexels/s 430 MTexels/s 860 MTexels/s 860 MTexels/s 820 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 4750 MTexels/s 1380 MTexels/s 1660 MTexels/s 1660 MTexels/s 1580 MTexels/s
Pixel Shader 124 fps 32 fps 36 fps 23 fps 27.5 fps
Vertex Shader - Simple 111 MVertices/s 32 MVertices/s 15.5 MVertices/s 15.5 MVertices/s 12 MVertices/s
Vertex Shader - Complex 24 MVertices/s 13 MVertices/s 8 MVertices/s 8 MVertices/s 8 MVertices/s
Shader Particles (SM3.0) 7.5 fps 3.5 fps - - -
Perlin Noise (SM3.0) 31 fps 7 fps - - -
512 Triangles - - - - 1.5 MTriangles/s
2048 Triangles - - - - 5 MTriangles/s
32768 Triangles - - - - 25 MTriangles/s

None of this videocards can provide reasonable framerate, although the latest integrated graphics are able to compete with (old) standalone graphics.

And as with 3DMark 2003 hardware support is slower then  software emulation. Although there now SM3 support (Perlin Noise) and triangle setup work with stable 16 MTriangles per second independent of its number (but maximal rate is still lower then with software emulation).

All tests run at default driver settings, various resolutions. Benchmark settings: no AA, 4x anisotropy, 3.0 vertex and pixel shaders):

  GeForce 7600GS 256M,
Athlon XP 2800+ (o/c)		 GeForce 6200 128M,
Athlon XP 2800+ (o/c)		 GMA3000 G965,
Intel Core2 Duo 6400 (o/c)		 GMA3000 G965,
Intel Core2 Duo 6400 (o/c)		 GMA3000 G965,
Intel Core2 Duo 6400		 GMA3000 G965,
Intel Core2 Duo 6400

Settings
Driver Version - - 14.25.50 WinXP 14.25.50 WinXP 15.4 Vista (x86) 15.6 Vista (x86), h/w vertex
Width 1024 1024 1024 1280 1024 1280
Height 768 768 768 1024 768 1024
Anti-Aliasing

None

None

None

None

None

None
Anti-Aliasing Quality

0

0

0

0

0

0
Texture Filtering Optimal Optimal Optimal Optimal Optimal Optimal
Anisotropic Level

1

1

1

1

1

1
Vertex Shaders Profile 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0
Pixel Shaders Profile 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0
Force software vertex shader No No Yes Yes Yes No
CPU Frequency 2193 MHz 2193 MHz 2240 MHz 2240 MHz 2130 MHz 2130 MHz
GPU Frequency 400 MHz 350 MHz ? MHz ? MHz 400 (667) MHz 400 (667) MHz
VRAM Frequency 400 MHz 500 MHz 350 MHz 350 MHz 333 MHz 333 MHz

Score
3DMark Score 2450 3DMarks 450 3DMarks 650 3DMarks 540 3DMarks 730 3DMarks 600 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score 1080 210 200 170 210 180
HDR/SM3.0 Score 1010 - 260 200 300 240
CPU Score 740 740 1870 1870 1720 1700
Game Score
GT1 - Return To Proxycon (SM2.0) 9 fps 1.4 fps 1.6 fps 1.4 fps 1.7 fps 1.5 fps
GT2 - Firefly Forest (SM2.0) 9 fps 2.2 fps 1.7 fps 1.5 fps 1.9 fps 1.5 fps
CPU1 - Red Valley (CPU) 0.2 fps 0.2 fps 0.6 fps 0.6 fps 0.6 fps 0.5 fps
CPU2 - Red Valley (CPU) 0.4 fps 0.4 fps 0.9 fps 0.9 fps 0.9 fps 0.8 fps
HDR1 - Canyon Flight (HDR/SM3.0) 9 fps - 2.5 fps 2 fps 2.5 fps 2 fps
HDR2 - Deep Freeze (HDR/SM3.0) 11.5 fps - 2.5 fps 2 fps 3.5 fps 2.5 fps

Feature Tests
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 1650 MTexels/s 430 MTexels/s 860 MTexels/s 860 MTexels/s 820 MTexels/s 820 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 4750 MTexels/s 1380 MTexels/s 1660 MTexels/s 1660 MTexels/s 1580 MTexels/s 1580 MTexels/s
Pixel Shader 124 fps 32 fps 36 fps 23 fps 27.5 fps 18.5 fps
Vertex Shader - Simple 111 MVertices/s 32 MVertices/s 15.5 MVertices/s 15.5 MVertices/s 12 MVertices/s 12.5 MVertices/s
Vertex Shader - Complex 24 MVertices/s 13 MVertices/s 8 MVertices/s 8 MVertices/s 8 MVertices/s 7.5 MVertices/s
Shader Particles (SM3.0) 7.5 fps 3.5 fps - - - -
Perlin Noise (SM3.0) 31 fps 7 fps - - - 8 fps
512 Triangles - - - - 1.5 MTriangles/s 16 MTriangles/s
2048 Triangles - - - - 5 MTriangles/s 16.5 MTriangles/s
32768 Triangles - - - - 25 MTriangles/s 17 MTriangles/s

None of this videocards can provide reasonable framerate, although the latest integrated graphics are able to compete with (old) standalone graphics.

And as with 3DMark 2003 hardware support is slower then  software emulation. Although there now SM3 support (Perlin Noise) and triangle setup work with stable 16 MTriangles per second independent of its number (but maximal rate is still lower then with software emulation).