Unreal Tournament 2003 (continued)
The ctf-citadel demo is a capture the flag gameplay benchmark set in the Citadel
level.
Unreal
Tournament 2003
ctf-citadel @ 800x600x32 |
Mobility
Radeon 9000 64MB

GeForce4
440 Go 64MB

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34 |
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51 |
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68 |
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85 |
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102 |
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The Mobility Radeon 9000 only outperforms the GeForce4 440 Go by 5% at 800x600x32
in the Citadel level. The reason: the benchmark is fairly well CPU limited at
this resolution.
Unreal
Tournament 2003
ctf-citadel @ 1024x768x32 |
Mobility
Radeon 9000 64MB

GeForce4
440 Go 64MB

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13 |
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26 |
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40 |
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53 |
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66 |
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8 |
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Cranking the resolution up gives us a bit more performance improvement, 8%
as opposed to 5%, but we still would have liked to see more. Again, we can hypothesize
that the one texture per pipeline or perhaps the fact that the Citadel level
does not make extensive use of shaders is holding the Mobility Radeon 9000 back.
Unreal
Tournament 2003
ctf-citadel @ 1280x1024x32 |
Mobility
Radeon 9000 64MB

GeForce4
440 Go 64MB

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9 |
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18 |
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27 |
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36 |
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45 |
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54 |
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Stepping the resolution up one more level increases the advantage that the
Mobility Radeon 9000, this time amounting to 11%.
The br-endagra demo tests the performance of the card in the bombing run gameplay
mode.
Unreal
Tournament 2003
br-endagra @ 800x600x32 |
Mobility
Radeon 9000 64MB

GeForce4
440 Go 64MB

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0 |
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22 |
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44 |
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66 |
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88 |
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110 |
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132 |
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So much for those mediocre performance increases that we saw in the Citadel
and Antalus demos. In the Endagra demo, the Mobility Radeon 9000 performs 24%
faster than the GeForce4 440 Go, likely due to increased shader functions.
Unreal
Tournament 2003
br-endagra @ 1024x768x32 |
Mobility
Radeon 9000 64MB

GeForce4
440 Go 64MB

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0 |
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32 |
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48 |
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65 |
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81 |
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97 |
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The performance delta widens as the resolution of the Endagra demo is increased
to 1024x768x32. Now we are seeing the Mobility Radeon 9000 offer a 26% speed
boost.
Unreal
Tournament 2003
br-endagra @ 1280x1024x32 |
Mobility
Radeon 9000 64MB

GeForce4
440 Go 64MB

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0 |
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11 |
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22 |
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32 |
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43 |
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54 |
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65 |
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In the same demo at 1280x1024x32 the Mobility Radeon 9000 brings to the table
the largest performance advantage it has enjoyed as of yet at 27%.
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