As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve built a new machine. And I’ve completed my first performance test on it, before any optimizations and with an out of date video driver. Here is what I got running 3D Mark 2006:
And here is the result of the same test run on my old machine:
That looks like a 3-fold improvement to me, which is better than I expected. I would have been happy with double the performance. But 3DMark 2006 looks at performance for future games: games that might be out *next* year. 3DMark 2003 is a test probably more in tune with games that exist today: here are the results from that test on each machine:
3DMark 2003 results
- Old machine: 10,257
- New machine: 18,405
So, for “current” technology games, my new machine is probably about twice as fast as the old one. I also tried 3dMark 2005, but for some reason it failed (crashed on the second test) on my old machine. On the new system, the 3DMark 2005 score was 11,262