ABIT’s AA8-DuraMAX — The Next Winner or Loser?

Synthetic Testing:

FutureMark; 3dmark2001 SE, Build 330:

Massive Development; AquaMark3:

The AquaMark3 executes a complete state-of-the-art game engine and generates 3D scenes designed to make the same demands on hardware as a modern game. The utilized game engine, the krass�?� Engine, has been used in Aquanox and AquaNox 2: Revelation as well as in the upcoming RTS Spellforce by Phenomic Game Development. AquaMark3 utilizes recent hardware features of the new DirectX 9 API, such as PixelShader 2.0, while staying fully backward compatible to DirectX 8 and 7 graphics hardware.

SuperPi 1.1e :

SuperPi calculates the number Pi in this raw number crunching benchmark. The benchmark is fairly diverse and allows the user to change the number of digits of Pi that can be calculated. In this benchmark we ran SuperPi to 4 million places.

Results: SuperPi turned out to be the only benchmark here that showed any major difference! The other benchmarks were too close to call a winner or notice anything significant.

Let’s move on to some more benchmarks.