Yeah, scores dramatically decrease with AA and AF turned on. Remember, this
is just a benchmark. If you can run your games smoothly at high
resolutions, high detail and with AA and AF turned on, be happy with that.
That is the true beauty of owning one of these great high end Radeon video
cards. It is nice to score high on the benchmarks, and you can do that with
a little tweaking of the settings, but... Just set your card up with the
optimal quality settings you prefer and enjoy.

JVC

"markOpolis" wrote in message
...
I thought 3dMark'03 overruled Catalyst windows settings, but they don't !
My previous scores were made with maximum quality under DirectX tab
settings.

Here are my 3dMark'03 (build 330) results:
all Catalyst 3.4 Control Panel sliders set to "Performance"
under DirectX tab settings.

== 1024*768 / NoAA / Optimal texture / 4 Aniso
3DMark Score = 3738
GT1 - Wings of Fury 136,3 fps
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 22,6 fps
GT3 - Troll's Lair 21,1 fps
GT4 - Mother Nature 23,7 fps
CPU Score 557 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1 60,4 fps
CPU Test 2 10,2 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 812,3 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1818,7 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader 13,2 fps
Pixel Shader 2.0 34,9 fps
Ragtroll 15,7 fps

== 1024*768 / 2xAA / Optimal texture / 8 Aniso
3DMark Score = 2715
GT1 - Wings of Fury 101,6 fps
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 14,1 fps
GT3 - Troll's Lair 13,8 fps
GT4 - Mother Nature 20,7 fps
CPU Score 557 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1 60,1 fps
CPU Test 2 10,2 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 776,3 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1741,5 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader 12,9 fps
Pixel Shader 2.0 29,4 fps
Ragtroll 9,1 fps

== 1024*768 / 4xAA / Optimal texture / 16 Aniso
3DMark Score = 1954
GT1 - Wings of Fury 82,3 fps
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 8,0 fps
GT3 - Troll's Lair 8,1 fps
GT4 - Mother Nature 17,5 fps
CPU Score 556 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1 60,1 fps
CPU Test 2 10,2 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 640,2 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1769,6 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader 12,7 fps
Pixel Shader 2.0 26,7 fps
Ragtroll 4,7 fps

It doesn't seem pretty good :-( I lose 1000 points each time I double
AntiAliasing!

How much are you getting???...

Thanx in advance for your answers.


M.


My system is as follows:
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Gigabyte GA-8IK100 (i875P) - F6 BIOS default fail-safe settings
Intel Pentium 2.4C (2.4GHz FSB800 Hyper-Threading enabled)
2*256Mo PC3200 A-Data (WinBond BH-5 chip) DDR Cas 2.5 dual channel
ATI Radeon 9500Pro 128Mo AGP8x - fastwrites disabled (aperture size = 128)
Hyundaï DeluxScan S770 - CRT monitor

Windows XP SP1 - with every other available updates installed
ATI Catalyst 3.4 driver
Norton Internet Security Pro 2003
MS Office XP