Corsair TWINX1024-4400 Memory Review - Benchmarks: Video Games
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Comanche4
Commanche4 is an older benchmark and isn't useful for video card benchmarks any longer, but still does a good job of measuring system performance, since the video card is no longer the bottleneck. The 284 FSB 5:4 setting manages a pretty sizeable margin of victory by 2.5% over the 270 FSB 1:1 setting.
Aquamark
Aquamark v3.0 is another new benchmark that really stresses the video card in you system. Unlike 3DMark2003, Aquamark is based on a real game engine, so in theory, it should give us a better view of what running the system at the various settings. We do see the 270 FSB 5:4 fall ever so slightly behind the 270 FSB 1:1 settings. The amazing thing is how close all the scores are to each other. The scoring for this benchmark is done by taking the average frame rates during the testing period. So running at 270 FSB 1:1 gets an average frame rate of 44.719, and the 270 FSB 5:4 setting is 44.362 frames per second. The difference between the scores would in no way be noticeable in game play.
Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal Tournament 2003 has become a great gaming benchmark. It unmistakably is based on a real and popular game engine utilizing DirectX 8, and odds are most readers have at least played the demo. I first ran the benchmark at 640x480 to limit the effects of the video card on the test results. Here I concentrated primarily on the average frame rates in the center of the graph. The 284 FSB 5:4 setting won by about 1.5 frames per second but the more interesting thing is to see the 270 FSB 5:4 setting average over 4 frames per second lower than the 270 FSB 1:1 setting. Clearly Unreal Tournament 2003 prefers the extra memory bandwidth.
The next test was run at 1024x768 to represent the video settings that you may actually run while playing the game. I was very surprised to see the average frame rates nearly identical to the average frame rates run at 640x480. We still see the 284 FSB 5:4 setting in the lead but by a little less than it was at 640x480. The 270 FSB 5:4 setting still is behind the 1:1 ratio by a little over 4 frames per second.
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