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ATI Radeon 9700 grabs graphics top spot
News The benchmarks back up ATI's own recent claim that the Radeon 9700 Pro would deliver twice the performance of anything else on the market, and will lay a new foundation for cinematic 3D graphics. ZDNet Labs' benchmarks show ATI's Radeon 9700 Pro...
[August 22, 2002, 15:48]
PocketPC Mark
Downloads Currently the following modules are implemented: CPU dhrystone benchmark (CPU integer performance); CPU whetstone benchmark (CPU float performance); memory speed benchmark (memory bus bandwidth benchmark); file system benchmark (benchmarks the RAM...
[July 3, 2003, 12:12]
IBM claims fastest Unix workstation
News IBM backs up its top-of-the-heap claim with graphics benchmarks from Standard Performance Evaluation (SPEC). IBM claims to be faster in several key benchmarks that make up the SPECviewperf suite of workstation performance benchmarks.
[December 29, 2000, 9:10]
Futuremark backs down on Nvidia cheat claims
News Benchmarks can be important to the prestige, if not the market share, of graphics chip makers. See the full review: Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra: updated benchmarks) Futuremark will consider whether this approach is needed in its future benchmarks.
[June 3, 2003, 9:33]
AMD faces tough fight with dual Athlons
News At a launch event in Munich, AMD demonstrated multiple-processor workstations running real-time animation and graphics rendering, and showed off several sets of benchmarks. There were, however, no benchmarks comparing the system with what some...
[June 6, 2001, 8:52]
Linux Whole-System Profiling Study
White Papers Fourth, HTTP includes three different web-serving benchmarks that measure the behavior of the apache server under different loading conditions. Together, these benchmarks give performance numbers for a wide range of applications facilitating...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
NVidia sharpens image with GeForce3 Titaniums
News NVidia today also launched a new driver that it said would significantly boost the performance of graphics cards based on existing GeForce GPUs, as well as helping to shore up benchmarks for the new Titanium range.
[October 1, 2001, 16:49]
Intel 850E v VIA P4X333 review
Reviews VIA tries to reconcile this inequality by using buffer technology in the Northbridge -- and it seems to very successful, as our memory benchmarks show. The combination of a good hard disk interface and outstanding memory performance is evident in...
[May 23, 2002, 14:38]
Netbook platforms: VIA Nano v. Intel Atom review
Reviews The differences are even more pronounced in the integer benchmarks. The 3D Mark 2003 and 2005 benchmarks, and the OpenGL test from the Cinebench suite, underline the fact that netbooks are not intended for 3D operations.
[February 10, 2009, 16:22]
Jobs: G5 Power Macs will outperform any Windows PC
News By August, there won't be anything on PC platforms that will be faster," Glaskowsky said, adding that he was particularly impressed with Apple's benchmarks for floating point performance, which measures how quickly a computer can calculate numbers...
[June 24, 2003, 9:16]
AMD turbocharges Athlon 64
News Reviewers say customers with money to spare for an FX-53 desktop will be rewarded with improved performance on many benchmarks, including important gaming measurements. The FX-53 runs neck-and-neck in most other races, certainly not being best[ed...
[March 19, 2004, 10:40]
GeForce FX catches up to Radeon performance
News Nvidia's latest high-end graphics processor appears to have caught up to ATI's latest Radeon chip in performance, even allowing for alleged dirty tricks in the way Nvidia's drivers handle benchmarks, according to new tests from ZDNet Labs.
[May 28, 2003, 15:40]
GeForce4 more than twice the speed of GeForce3
News The performance gap between the two chips particularly shows up with anti-aliasing turned on, according to benchmarks. Graphics acceleration enthusiasts can expect the new GeForce4 chip to deliver a significant performance boost over the fastest...
[February 6, 2002, 14:49]
Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra: a first look review
Reviews The GeForce 6800 won't hit retail until early May, but Nvidia lent us a review sample of the high-end 256MB GeForce 6800 Ultra version, and we were able to conduct some hands-on testing, as well as run preliminary benchmarks using beta drivers.
[April 14, 2004, 16:50]
AMD Athlon 64: the benchmarks
Talkback This is all fine for the graphics and gaming industries, but what about some serious number crunching benchmarks. What's the integer and FP performance like? Hopefully it's going to be something like the performance of the old Athlon, which in our...
[September 29, 2003, 9:19]
Graphics benchmarker tightens the rules
News Futuremark, which operates the 3DMark range of benchmarks, published a new set of guidelines on Tuesday. Graphics-card manufacturers have been instructed not to optimise their products to generate undeservedly high results in a key benchmarking test.
[September 24, 2003, 15:40]
What to look for in graphics for 2004 review
Reviews So if Half-Life 2 is on your wish-list, your best option is an ATI card (on the basis of preliminary benchmarks released by Valve Software). However, unfortunately for Nvidia, id Software guru John Carmack had this to say about the GeForce FX and...
[January 6, 2004, 13:05]
The graphics wars: ATI takes the lead review
Reviews We finally have a clear winner in the form of the ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, which not only bested Nvidia's new GeForce 6800 Ultra on our benchmarks, but also features a much more efficient design.
[May 5, 2004, 10:05]
Vista rating tool is tweaked
News It looks at five benchmarks and presents an individual score for each, as well as an overall rating for the system. It should be very clear to everyone how important graphics are," said Andrew Dodd, a software product manager at graphics specialist...
[July 10, 2006, 10:10]
Dell Dimension 8100 review
Reviews The Dimension 8100 delivers the fastest 3D graphics benchmarks we've seen so far, thanks mainly to its 64MB nVidia GeForce2 Ultra adapter. However, it's advisable to fill only two of these, as the third, which sits by the AGP slot, is best left...
[November 19, 2000, 23:00]
