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  And I’ve completed my first performance test on it, before any optimizations and with an out of date video driver.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:

3dMark 2006 score

 

And here is the result of the same test run on my old machine:

 

3dMark 2006 results on 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

This Post Has 3 Comments

  1. chris

    The faster the computer, the slower the owner is about responding to emails 😉

  2. Kelly Adams

    My bad: I responded to your Mom, and whatever neuron handles such things decided that was the same as responding to you.

    But one thing is true: now I can waste time really, really fast! 😉

  3. chris

    “But one thing is true: now I can waste time really, really fast! ;)”

    That’s good. In today’s world efficiency is important! 😀 😆

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