UT2003 - Botmatch

Here we'll look at the 'Botmatch' benchmarks scores from the full UT2003 game benchmarks.




FPS 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x960 1600x1200
1.0.0.233 53.0 49.9 44.3 36.6 27.9
1.2.0.42 59.9 59.8 57.5 48.6 34.8
 
Difference 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x960 1600x1200
FPS 6.9 9.9 13.2 12.0 6.9
% 13% 20% 30% 33% 25%

Under UT2003 we can see that Matrox have made some relatively significant driver gains from earlier drivers to the current ones, with a best performance increase of 33%.

Here the Parhelia is posting scores more or less in line with other boards that we've used the benchmark on, with a performance just under 60 FPS on average at 1024x768, but still over 30 FPS at 1600x1200.


1.2.0.42 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x960 1600x1200
Normal 59.9 59.8 57.5 48.6 34.8
2X Aniso 59.7 56.6 48.1 36.0 24.7
16X FAA 59.7 57.8 48.6 35.0 24.3
2X Aniso + 16X FAA 58.2 50.5 38.3 27.2 18.7
 
% Difference 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x960 1600x1200
2X Aniso 0% -5% -16% -26% -29%
16X FAA 0% -3% -15% -28% -30%
2X Aniso + 16X FAA -3% -15% -33% -44% -46%

Interestingly, in this case both 2X Anisotropic Filtering and FAA are posting roughly the same performance impact from normal rendering, with both having about 30% performance degradation at 1600x1200. Combining FAA and the 2X filtering results, as we'd expect, in a higher performance drop with the effects being above cumulative at the low resolutions, but below at higher resolutions.