3DMark 2000 Results
One thing
that stands out about this test is the outstanding score with the CPU overclocked
to 667 MHz and the card overclocked to 240/370. The actual score was 6178.
Another thing that stands out here is how small an improvement was achieved
with just overclocking the card. At 500 MHz overclocking the card only raised
the score from 4776 to 4868. At 667 MHz the score increase was somewhat better
from 5900 to 6178. This shows just how CPU limited the card is. In plain terms
that means the card is so fast that it is waiting for its instructions from
the CPU. This equates to noticable improvements in performance with CPU speed
increases. More interesting though were the results when Direct3D antialiasing
was enabled.
At the stock
core/memory clock we find a score of 2230. The results only improve to 2499
with the video card being overclocked. With such low scores I chose not to
bother testing with the CPU at 500 MHz. Hopefully these results will improve
with future versions of nVidia's reference drivers. With DirectX 8 only weeks
away maybe we can have some hope for this benchmark area. I can't recommend
that you enable full screen antialiasing in your DirectX games at this point.
