>>Can some folks out there run the test too and give me some hardware >>specs(there's a hardware specs movie that you can run) and >>performance numbers? > >I get about 9 fps on a 292 MHz G3 that has no hardware assisted >rendering. It would seem very unlikely that a G4 with hardware >rendering could only get 30 fps. I'll check with my machine at work >in the morning.
Its hardly fair to compare a Rage (old card not designed for 3d) card to the Geforce 2 Go (newer card with 3d in mind). I'd say that sounds about right for both of them. All my findings on the topic are in general the PC has better 3d performance even with the same cards, whether talking about for creation (Lightwave 3d, ect) or running games. For example the new Dual 1ghz with the Geforce 4 mx gets 115 fps in Quake 3 (multi-threaded game) and my single 1.2 ghz Athlon with Geforce 3 gets 130+ with the same settings. I've seen in a lot of reviews that for some reason the processors in the Macs bottle neck the whole thing, at least this was the case with the 500mhz G4's/Geforce 2 MX combo's. Anyway...I just tested it with my Dual Athlon 1800+/Radeon 8500 combo and I get 55 fps in software mode and 200 fps in hardware and on my Single 1.2ghz Athlon MP/Geforce 3 I get 40 fps and 170 fps. HTH Bill _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
