SiSoft Sandra is a program
to test the general performance of the system.These tests will measure the integer and floating point memory
operations, as well as the throughput from the hard disk drive.
SiSandra
MX440
Ti4400
Int
Memory Throughput
2353
MB/s
2375
MB/s
Float
Memory Throughput
2209
MB/s
2231
MB/s
Disk
Throughput
10442
KB/s
10643
KB/s
With or without the video card installed,
the results are roughly the same.
HD Tach 2.6
HD Tach tests the hard
drive on the system.It
registers the high, low, and average throughput, the random access time
to get information off of the hard drive, and the CPU utilization on the
system from the hard drive.
HD
Tach 2.60
MX440
Ti4400
Max
Throughput
18.1
MB/s
18.1
MB/s
Min
Throughput
7.7
MB/s
7.6
MB/s
Avg
Throughput
14.8
MB/s
14.9
MB/s
Random
Access Time
12.8
ms
12.7
ms
Burst
60.1
MB/s
60.3
MB/s
CPU
Utilization
28.90%
12.80%
For the most part, both
systems perform fairly similarly.However,
the CPU utilization is much lower with the video card installed than
without.I admit, I thought
that the CPU utilization is high without the video card installed, but I
ran this test several times and each time it came up with something
around this percentage.
ScienceMark
2.0
ScienceMark has several
scientific tests included with it.It tests the cache and memory latencies on the PC, performs a
molecular dynamics simulation of 216Argon atoms at 140 degress Kelvin in
the MolDyn test, and determines the quantum solutions to the Schrodinger
equation for 61 electrons in the element Promethium in the Primordia
test.
ScienceMark
2.0
MX440
Ti4400
Memory
Throughput
2341.7
2419.49
MolDyn
93.82
sec
93.16
sec
Primordia
514.91
sec
510.24
sec
Again, the video card doesn’t make a great
difference, but it does seem to help the memory throughput a bit in this
case.However, both tests
finish relatively quickly for what it is calculating.
3D Mark 2003
3D Mark 2003 is the latest video card benchmark to
come out from FutureMark.It
generates a score based on the frame rate and the features of the video
card in synthetic 3D tests.
3D
Mark 2003
MX440
Ti4400
1024x768x32
NA
1626
1280x1024x32
NA
1180
1600x1200x32
NA
881
I tried several time to get 3D Mark 2003 to work with
the integrated video, but every time I tried, it would show that it was
loaded the first test, and then drop to the desktop.Having the Ti4400 installed in the system did give me some
scores, and they were not bad considering the DX8 3D hardware.
3D Mark
2001SE
3D Mark 2001SE is FutureMark’s release before the
2003 version.It also gives
a score based on the frame rate and the video card features, similarly
to 2003.
3D
Mark 2001 SE
MX440
Ti4400
1024x768x32
4730
12066
1280x1024x32
3279
9576
1600x1200x32
NA
7616
3D Mark 2001SE also had problems running with the
integrated video at the 1600x1200 resolution.However, one glimpse at the tested resolutions shows that the
integrated video just cannot compete with current mainstream video
cards.
Quake III
Quake III has been the standard game for benchmarking
3D graphics for quite some time.Even
though it is old and the frames per second seem to approach the
stratosphere, it shows the difference between the integrated video and
the addition of a video card.
Quake
III
MX440
Ti4400
1024x768x32
116.6
223
1280x1024x32
75.4
184.7
1600x1200x32
53.4
139.9
Here the integrated video holds up fairly well, but
having a separate video card really helps, especially at higher
resolutions.
Unreal
Tournament 2003
Kyle from HardOCP has created a benchmark to use with
UT2003.For this test, I
used the CPU benchmark.
UT2003
(CPU Benchmark)
1024x768x32
53.55
98.93
1280x1024x32
34.86
85.95
1600x1200x32
24.89
68.92
Again, the Ti4400 really helps the scores here.The integrated video did not hold up as well as in the Quake III
tests.
