From: glenns@microsoft.com (Glenn Slayden)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: TECH: x86 system speeds for VR apps.
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:04:15 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu
Originator: hlab@stein.u.washington.edu



For the people asking for x86 (intel) machine recommendations for
virtual reality applications, the following list comes from the usenet
group comp.sys.games.ibm.pc.

The winners have local-bus video and DX2/66 MHz chips.

The benchmark used is frames per second measured by the "Superscape 3D
benchmark," which is available on the sample disk in _Virtual_
_Reality_Playhouse_.  It's also available at the FTP site mentioned
below.

-Glenn
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From: wity@iastate.edu (Senopati Pamungkas)
Subject: 3D-Bench Updated List (01/25/93)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:57:56 GMT


I have been receiving lots of 3dbench scores, so I decided to post the
updated list twice a week.  Here is the current list (01/25/93)

 
***** 20 FPS or more *****

486DX2/66, 256k cache, Gateway 2000, ATI Ultra PRO VLB              49.0 FPS
486DX2/66, 256k cache ATI Ultra Pro VESA (GW2K)                     47.6 FPS
486DX2/66, ET4000 EISA/VL-BUS                                       47.6 FPS
486DX2/66, Gateway 2000 VESA VLB (ATI PRO)                          47.4 FPS
486DX2/66, Ultra SVGA Local Bus                                     45.4 FPS
486DX2/66, 256k cache, VESA local bus Cirrus Logic card             43.4 FPS
486DX-50 VL, 256K, Genoa WindowsVGA 24 8500VL 1M Cirrus Logic       40.0 FPS
486DX2/50, 0k, VLB Zeos NCR77C22E+                                  33.3 FPS
486DX2/66, 256k cache, ATi VGA Wonder XL w/1 MB RAM                 29.4 FPS
486/50, 256k cache, ATI Ultra Pro 2MB ISA                           29.3 FPS
486DX/50 w/ ET4000 ISA card (8 bit)                                 28.3 FPS
486DX/50, 256k cache, Orchid Prodesigner IIS EISA                   27.7 FPS
486DX/50 Diamond Stealth                                            27.4 FPS
486DX/33, 256k cache, Diamond Stealth 24X VLB 1MB                   27.0 FPS
486/33, 256k cache, MVC 8000 (OEM ATi Ultra Pro VL-BUS)             27.0 FPS
486/33 ET4000-based Local Bus (no-name):                            26.6 FPS
486DX/50, 256k EISA Orchid Prodesigner II (32 bit)                  26.3 FPS
486DX/50, 256k cache ATi Ultra (ISA)                                25.6 FPS
486DX2/50, 256k cache, 2theMax ET-4000 1 MB, 16-bit ISA             25.1 FPS
486DX2/50, 0k L2 cache, Diamond SS24X ISA 16-bit:                   24.3 FPS
486DX-33, 64k cache, Gateway 2000 and Speedstar 1MB                 23.2 FPS
486DX/33, 256k cache, ISA, Diamond SS-24X (1MB)                     21.7 FPS
486DX/33, 64k cache, Diamond SS Plus-1M                             21.7 FPS
486/33, 256k cache, bus speed=11mhz, ET4000 (16 bit)                21.2 FPS
486SX/33, 128k cache and Cirrus GD5422-based video (1MB)            20.6 FPS
486DX/33, 64k cache, ATi VGA Wonder XL                              20.4 FPS
486/33, 128k cache, ET4000 1MB, AT bus                              20.4 FPS

***** 10 FPS to 19.9 FPS *****

486/33, 64k cache, bus speed CLK/2, 16-bit Paradise clone 512k      19.6 FPS
486/33, 64k cache, bus speed CLK/2.5, 16-bit Paradise clone 512k    18.8 FPS
486DX/33,256k cache,Tseng Labs ET4000 16-bit ISA (1 MB)             18.8 FPS
486/33, 64k cache, OAK Tech OTI-067 16-bit (512k)                   18.1 FPS
486/33, 64k cache, bus speed CLK/3, 16-bit Paradise clone 512k      17.9 FPS
486SX/25 256k cache, Iris ET4000 1MB                                17.8 FPS
486/50 256k cache, Fahrenheit 1280-1MB                              17.5 FPS
486SX-25 16-bit ET4000                                              17.5 FPS
486DX/33, 8k cache ET4000 1MB                                       17.2 FPS
486SX/25 ET4000 16-bit                                              17.1 FPS
486DX/33 w/ Paradise PVGA1B 16-bit                                  16.9 FPS
486SX/25 w/ Diamond Speedstar 512k                                  16.6 FPS
386/40, 128k cache with 16-bit ET4000 1MB                           16.3 FPS
386DX/40, 64k cache, Cirrus GD54 w/ 1MB                             15.3 FPS 
486SX/33 ATi VGA Wonder                                             15.1 FPS
386/40 + Cyrix 387 128 c At-Bus CPUCLK/3, Trident 8900C 1MB         14.9 FPS 
486DX/33, 64k cache and Diamond Stealth                             14.7 FPS
386/40, 128k cache, Trident 8900C SVGA (1MB)                        14.2 FPS
486DX/33, 64k cache, Trident w/1 MB VRAM                            13.8 FPS
386/40, 64k cache Trident 8900 1MB                                  13.8 FPS
386/40, 64k cache Paradise 16bit w/256k                             13.6 FPS
386/40, 64k cache, STB Wind/X                                       13.1 FPS
386DX/33, 64k cache, Orchid Prodesigner II (16 bit)                 12.8 FPS
386DX/33, 64k cache, Trident 8900 1MB                               12.5 FPS
486SX/C, NEC Prospeed, 25 Mhz, VGA on m-board, LCD Color VGA        12.0 FPS
386DX/33, 256k cache, ATi VGA Wonder, Rapid Cad chip set            11.3 FPS
386DX-25, 64k cache, Diamond SpeedStar Hicolor                      10.9 FPS
386/40, 128k cache, Old 8-bit Paradise                              10.9 FPS
386DX/33, 128k cache, Trident-9000 card                             10.6 FPS
486SX-25 8-bit Paradise                                             10.5 FPS
386DX/40, 256K cache, Trident 8900C 1MB                             10.2 FPS
486SX/25 ET4000 8-bit                                               10.1 FPS

***** 9.9 FPS or less *****

386DX/25, 64k cache, Paradise 512k                                   9.9 FPS
486/33, 256k cache, Paradise VGA (8-bit)                             9.8 FPS
386DX/40, 64k cache, Paradise VGA 8-bit 256k                         9.7 FPS
Sparc10/OS 4.1.3/SoftPC                                              9.4 FPS
386SX/25 (AMD), 32k cache, Trident 8900 1MB                          8.9 FPS
386DX-25 Compaq Deskpro, 0k cache, Compaq VGA (256k)                 8.8 FPS
386DX-25, 0k cache, 512k ATI Wonder                                  8.4 FPS
386/33, 64k cache, Trident VGA 1MB                                   8.2 FPS
386SX/33, 64k cache, 16.5MHz ISA bus, generic non-ET4000 8-bit VGA   8.0 FPS
386DX/25, 0k cache, Trident 8900C 1MB                                7.8 FPS
386SX/20 Zeos w/ 1MB Diamond Speedstar VGA                           7.5 FPS
386/25 w/ 512k Western Digital-Paradise VGA & Software cache         7.4 FPS
386DX/20, 0k cache, cheap Oak 256K VGA                               6.5 FPS
386SX-20 NEC Powermate, 0k cache, Paradise VGA                       6.4 FPS
386/25 ATi-VGA Wonder-16                                             5.6 FPS
386/25 NEC Powermate, Nec Graphics Engine                            5.5 FPS
Sparcstation2 (40Mhz) Soft-Pc                                        5.2 FPS
386DX/16 Leading Edge, 0k cache, ATi VGA WonderXL-1MB                5.1 FPS
386SX-16 Celebrity Premier, 0k cache, Ahead VGA-1MB                  5.0 FPS
286/12 NEC Powermate, VGA on m-board                                 4.7 FPS
Dec 5000/200 SoftPC                                                  3.7 FPS
IBM PS/2 Model 55 SX (80386 SX/16 MHz) with Ahead VGA                3.6 FPS
IBM PS/2 Model 50 (286 system ??)                                    2.6 FPS
8088 with 8-bit ATi Integra (16-bit, 8-bit slot)                     0.5 FPS

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*If you want to add your own 3D-Bench, please send it to wity@iastate.edu,
 instead of posting it here.  I will post the updated list twice a week.
*You can get 3D-Bench at wuarchive.wustl.edu, /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/utilities,
 the filename is 3dbench.zip
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