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Anandtech's Newest Benchmark: Console Emulators
[blockquote]The original idea was to use either an NES or SNES emulator as a real world framebuffer upload benchmark. Emulators of aged consoles can use the CPU to emulate the entire system and just send frames over to the GPU as fast as they are cranked out.
Something like this may still be a possibility, but as we delved deeper into the depths of the emulator community, we discovered much more exciting things that we could bring to the table. We finally settled on benchmarking a PlayStation emulator.[/blockquote]
Either fortunately or unfortunately (depending on your preferences), this is where most of the playing time in Final Fantasy games is spent. Welcome to the battle system. Here, we see offscreen drawing, framebuffer uploads and framebuffer effects in full swing. This portion of the game is also rendered at full framerate
Final Fantasy IX: Battle System (Athlon 64 3400+)
ATI Radeon 9800XT 176.1
ATI Radeon 9800Pro 170.0
ATI Radeon 9600XT 130.2
Nvidia 5950 Ultra 81.1
Nvidia 5700 Ultra 64.2
Here, we see the first really large difference of the day. The ATI cards jump to the top of the heap with a very significant lead in performance. The GeForce FX 5700 Ultra barely squeaks by the full speed 60 fps limit.
[link=http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1986]Anandtech Article[/link]
Something like this may still be a possibility, but as we delved deeper into the depths of the emulator community, we discovered much more exciting things that we could bring to the table. We finally settled on benchmarking a PlayStation emulator.[/blockquote]
Either fortunately or unfortunately (depending on your preferences), this is where most of the playing time in Final Fantasy games is spent. Welcome to the battle system. Here, we see offscreen drawing, framebuffer uploads and framebuffer effects in full swing. This portion of the game is also rendered at full framerate
Final Fantasy IX: Battle System (Athlon 64 3400+)
ATI Radeon 9800XT 176.1
ATI Radeon 9800Pro 170.0
ATI Radeon 9600XT 130.2
Nvidia 5950 Ultra 81.1
Nvidia 5700 Ultra 64.2
Here, we see the first really large difference of the day. The ATI cards jump to the top of the heap with a very significant lead in performance. The GeForce FX 5700 Ultra barely squeaks by the full speed 60 fps limit.
[link=http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1986]Anandtech Article[/link]
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