Final Reality, a test by VNU European Labs and Remedy Entertainment, will give you all sorts of data about your 3D accelerator, including fill rates, polygons-per-second, and frame rates on various 640x480 D3D 5.0 scenes. All your 3D accelerator functions will be tested and put on display, fogging, and more. So, if your card claims mondo feature support, it had better be ready to walk the walk, and talk the talk.
INSTALLATION:
The installation will create several icons on your desktop. Launch Final Reality either via its icon or using the Start Menu. You'll need DirectX 5.0 before you can run this bootMark. If your system has MMX and AGP on-board, the splash screen will tell you it detects them. If you want to get a feel for what the benchmark is all about before doing the serious testing, click on the Run Benchmark button and prepare to be dazzled. Once you've gotten over the initial euphoria, it's time to roll up your sleeves and get started. Click on the Advanced Options button and it'll take you to this menu. From here, you can see what features your board's current driver supports. Like with X, make sure the Rendering Platform is set to the video card driver you want to test. You'll want to run the benchmarks five times; check that box. Once you're ready, click on the Run Advanced Benchmarks and away you'll go.
NOTE:
The tests are all conducted at 640x480/16-bit.
THE RANGE:
Under the scrutiny of Final Reality, take a look at the 3D-performance applet when you click View Results. With all scores, the higher the result, the badder your 3D accelerator is. To see how many polygons your accelerator can push, take a peek at the FR Polygon results. This result is reported in thousands-of-triangles-per-second (i.e., 40Kpoly/sec). To see how fast your fill rate is, take a look at the FR 25-Pixel result. This score is measured in mega-pixels-per-second (i.e., 50M pixels/sec). The other scores shown here are in images-per-second. So, a score of 50.21images/sec is really 50.21fps. Think your card's up to snuff?
