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Voodoo 5500 AGP vs PCI Benchmarks

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First post, by mzry

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Hiya,

I recently got the opportunity to benchmark the PCI against the AGP models, for 'research' purposes 😀

The card details:
memory: mt 48lc2m32b2 / PCB rev: A1 2900 PCI (Does anyone know what nanosecond this memory is?)
memory: toshiba tc59s6432cf t-60 / PCB rev: A 1900 AGP (Does anyone know what nanosecond this memory is?)

Benchmark system:
Intel P3 Tualatin 1.4S @ 1.4Ghz
Asus TUSL2-C Motherboard
Infineon 512mb ram CAS 2
Windows 2000 / WHQL latest official 3dfx drivers
Official OpenGL ICD used for all Quake games, no miniGL as miniGL is mainly designed for older voodoos.

AGP:
Q2 - 105fps (1280x960 16bit)
Q3 - 72.5fps (1280x1024 16bit)
Unreal - 106fps (1024x768 16bit)
3dmark 2000 - 5039 (Default bench settings)
3dmark 2001 - 2243 (Default bench settings)

PCI:
Q2 - 104 (1280x960 16bit)
Q3 - 71.8fps (1280x1024 16bit)
Unreal - 103fps (1024x768 16bit)
3dmark 2000 - 4327 (Default bench settings)
3dmark 2001 - 1885 (Default bench settings)

If you're wondering why I only ran tests at those resolutions: it's because that's the res/depth I play my games at and I don't have time to do a really thorough resolution analysis.

Last edited by mzry on 2017-02-19, 07:08. Edited 4 times in total.

Reply 1 of 3, by havli

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mzry wrote:

... we all know the voodoo 5 in AGP ran in PCI mode and did not take advantage of any AGP features.

Actually V5 AGP is using "AGP 1x", which is twice as fast compared to regular 33MHz PCI. And because of that V5 AGP is faster in 3dmark and some games as well.

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Reply 3 of 3, by firage

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Thanks for sharing your results.

mzry wrote:

The card details:
memory: mt 48lc2m32b2 / PCB rev: A1 2900 PCI (Does anyone know what nanosecond this memory is?)
memory: toshiba tc59s6432cf t-60 / PCB rev: A 1900 AGP (Does anyone know what nanosecond this memory is?)

The speed grade is listed behind or below the model ID on the chips. The Toshiba is 6.0ns which is common. V5 boards do sometimes come with faster rated chips, so check the PCI one.

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