First post, by ildonaldo
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I've got a Pentium 1 based PC with a PowerVR PCX2 card.
People keep telling my that the performance of the PowerVR PCX2 is highly dependend on the FPU performace of the CPU.
I tried it with different HW settings but honestly felt not much difference.
But "felt" istn't good enough and so I want to run some benchmarks on the system using ...
a) an IDT Winchip W2a 200MHz (presumably weak FPU)
VS
b) a Intel Pentium MMX 200MHz (probably better FPU)
The question is now what benchmarks to run to produce significant results with reasonable effort...
- I will run Tomb Raider 1 as it is adapted to the PoverVR PCX2 of the matrox m3D - is there a Tool/Script or a built in benchmark?
- and 3DMark 99Max as synthetic benchmark (if it works with Win95)
- Unreal or Quake2 were also recommended - I've got the original Versions but I never used them for benchmarking - is ther a Tool/Script or a built in benchmark?
As I never was much in benchmarking - except from the occasioal 3DMark - and have no clue how to use games for that purpose ...
I know that some games have a built in benchmark mode but never used it.
Any hints for running unreal/Quake2 and TR1 as benchmark will be welcome ...
Building my own PCs since 1991 - for my retro builds it's "no CF-disks, no Floppy emulators, no modern cases etc.", only the real and authentic stuff whenever possible.
