3DMark 2001SE
The benchmark wagon is put into first gear with 3DMark 2001SE v330. Run at its default settings of 1024x768x32 first.
Anything over 10,000 marks can be considered as impressive. The 3.2GHz CPU allows the graphics cards to really strut their stuff with no image enhancements applied. However, let's up the ante with 4x anti-aliasing and 8 x anisotropic filtering.
The Tyan's performance is almost halved with these common levels of image enhancement. That, really, is why one pays more for the bandwidth monsters higher up in the range. The benchmark appeared to be relatively smooth, though.
A silly setting for a midrange card, but it does go to show that bandwidth-crippled cards are ill-equipped to deal with a massive number of pixels and reads. That's kind of stating the obvious, and the numbers seem to concur. The FX 5600 Ultra's lead in this synthetic benchmark is of a little concern. We'll see how The Tachyon G9600 Pro and FX 5600U fare in real-world benchmarks.
