ksk wrote:
FYI
Quake3 PPC vs x86: http://www.barefeats.com/p4game.html
PPC & Radeon7000 PCI vs AGP cards ... : http://www.barefeats.com/gr7000.html
btw. Radeon7000 PCI seems to be 66MHz PCI card... therefore perhaps the best card for future SharkPPC + AOS4 users.
Just a side note;
One could better the Athlon 2000+’s results by employing nForce 2 based chipset (with aggressive settings). For example, my Athlon 1800+/nForce2 test machine pumps Quake 3 @ ~235/240 fps** (at “Normal” settings), while the old Athlon1800+/VIA KT133 only pumps around 172 fps** (at “Normal settings”). Both employs the same video cards (i.e. nVidia Geforce 4 TI).
** "timedemo 1", "demo demo001", "normal settings".
From mainstream VIA news, VIA is currently working on “hyper transport” based chipset. Since MAI has a close relationship with VIA, I wonder IF MAI could develop a product based on AMD’s hyper transport designs.
With today’s nForce 2 and the dual DDR400 setup, the bandwidth is pegged at 6.4Gb/s, which is a match with IBM’s 2003 H2 release of PPC 970’s chipset bandwidth.
