How we tested the Parhelia
Published: 24 Jul 2002
To determine the performance of the Matrox Parhelia-512, ZDNet carried out the following benchmark tests:
| Benchmark tests: Parhelia-512 | |||
| Application |
Genre |
API |
Benchmark |
| 3DMark 2001 | several | DirectX 8 | integrated |
| Comanche 4 | Action-Sim | DirectX 8.1 | integrated |
| DroneZ-Mark | Action | OpenGL | integrated |
| Quake 3 | Action | OpenGL | Quaver |
| Quake 3 | Action | OpenGL | NV15-Demo |
| Aquamark | Adventure | DirectX 8.1 | integrated |
| Spec Viewperf 7.0 | CAD/CAM | OpenGL | integrated |
The test platform was an Athlon XP/2000+-based system with an Abit KR7A RAID motherboard. This was fitted with 256MB of memory (DDR, PC2100, CL2) and an IBM Deskstar DTLA 307030 hard drive with a rotation speed of 7,200rpm. We tested under Windows XP at 1,024 by 768 resolution in 32-bit colour. The Matrox Parhelia was controlled with the 226 drivers; an nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600 card with the detonator drivers 29.42 (WHQL) served as a comparison.
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