The latest
version of the popular PCMark series, PCMark04 is an application-based benchmark
and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of
real applications instead of including whole applications or using specifically
created code. This allows PCMark04 to maintain a smaller installation size while
still giving accurate results.
| PCMark04: |
| Overall |
Points |
Ranking |
| Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/400) |
5085 |
   |
| Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/400) |
5422 |
|
| MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/400) |
5204 |
|
| DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400) |
5112 |
|
| ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400) |
5114 |
|
| VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/400) |
5139 |
|
| AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400) |
5173 |
|
| Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400) |
5207 |
   |
| CPU |
Points |
Ranking |
| Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/400) |
4956 |
|
| Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/400) |
5284 |
|
| MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/400) |
5034 |
|
| DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400) |
4978 |
|
| ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400) |
4929 |
|
| VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/400) |
4759 |
|
| AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400) |
4955 |
|
| Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400) |
5011 |
|
| Memory |
Points |
Ranking |
| Albatron PX925XE Pro-R (925XE 200/400) |
5329 |
|
| Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D (i925X 200/400) |
5712 |
|
| MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (i915P 200/400) |
5370 |
|
| DFI LANParty 875P-T (i875P 200/400) |
5076 |
|
| ASRock 775V88 (PT880 200/400) |
5023 |
|
| VIA PT894 Ref Motherboard (PT894 200/400) |
4679 |
|
| AOpen i915Pa-PLF (915P 200/400) |
5197 |
|
| Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal (NF4-SLI 200/400) |
5431 |
|
It's nice to see that nVIDIA for Intel is the real deal.
In PCMark04 the Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal can hold its own against mature 925X/XE
motherboards.
By
combining DirectX8 support with completely new graphics, 3DMark 2001 SE
continues to provide a good overall system benchmark. 3DMark2001 SE was created
in co-operation with the major 3D accelerator and processor manufacturers to
provide a reliable set of diagnostic tools. The suite demonstrates 3D gaming
performance by using real-world gaming technology to test a system's true
abilities. Tests include: DirectX8 Vertex Shaders, Pixel Shaders and Point
Sprites, DOT3 and Environment Mapped Bump Mapping, support for Full Scene
Anti-aliasing and Texture Compression and two game tests using Ipion real-time
physics. Higher 3DMark scores denote better performance.
3DMark2001 is not very SLI friendly and here we see that
using two GeForce 6600GTs doesn't do much. The Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal still
leads the Intel pack though.
Note that the AMD-based SLi setup (green bars) is using
the much 'faster A64 4000+ chip, which explains the large performance
differential. Note that by 'faster' we mean better, as the 2.4GHz Athlon64 is
technically 'slower' than the 3.2GHz P4). These benchmarks are included to
compare the benefits that AMD and Intel nForce 4 SLi systems receive from using
dual videocards.
PCMark04
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