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Futuremark 3DMark03

Let's see how each "upgrade" improves the Go5200's performance. Here is the summary of the different configurations :-

Normal
Sideband
Memory
Core
Complete
Core Clock
199 MHz
199 MHz
199 MHz
243 MHz
243 MHz
Memory Clock
405 MHz
405 MHz
513 MHz
405 MHz
513 MHz
AGP Sideband
Disabled
Enabled
Disabled
Disabled
Enabled

 

 

Overall 3DMark Score

Normal
Sideband
Memory
Core
Complete
3DMark Score
742 3DMarks
743 3DMarks
836 3DMarks
800 3DMarks
910 3DMarks
Enabling AGP sidebanding didn't help at all but increasing the clock speeds really helped increase the 3DMark score, especially the increased memory speed.
In the end, the Go5200's performance improved by 22.64%.

 

Game Tests

Normal
Sideband
Memory
Core
Complete
Wings Of Fury
49.09 FPS
49.12 FPS
58.15 FPS
50.35 FPS
60.30 FPS
Battle Of Proxycon
3.18 FPS
3.18 FPS
3.46FPS
3.48 FPS
3.89FPS
Troll's Lair
2.98 FPS
3.00 FPS
3.25 FPS
3.32 FPS
3.67 FPS
Mother Nature
3.29 FPS
3.31 FPS
3.39 FPS
3.85 FPS
4.00 FPS
Significant improvements were only noticed in the Wings of Fury test, and then only with the increase in memory speed.
The increase in core speed and the AGP sideband support didn't do much at all.
In the end, the Go5200's performance improved by 22.84% in that test.

 

Fill Rate Tests

Normal
Sideband
Memory
Core
Complete
Single-Texturing
327.6 MTexels/s
327.6 MTexels/s
419.9 MTexels/s
328.2 MTexels/s
419.6 MTexels/s
Multi-Texturing
550.8 MTexels/s
550.7 MTexels/s
570.5 MTexels/s
643.0 MTexels/s
674.4 MTexels/s
Single-texturing performance improved by 28.08% while multi-texturing performance improved by 22.44%.

 

Other Feature Tests

Normal
Sideband
Memory
Core
Complete
Vertex Shader
3.65 FPS
3.66 FPS
3.67 FPS
4.37 FPS
4.42 FPS
Pixel Shader 2.0
3.07 FPS
3.07 FPS
3.18 FPS
3.56 FPS
3.72 FPS
Ragtroll
2.78 FPS
2.79 FPS
3.19 FPS
3.00 FPS
3.51 FPS
The increased core speed helped boost theGo5200's Vertex Shader and Pixel Shader 2.0 performance
while the Ragtroll test improved more with the memory boost.

 



 
   
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