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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:00:01 PST
- Sender: Microsoft Windows Version 3 Forum <WIN3-L@UICVM.BITNET>
- From: Jim Tunnicliffe <tunny@INFERENCE.COM>
- Subject: Re: Speedstar24X Winmarks -- minor corrections
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- > >Does anyone has comparison as to how the results from these two versions of
- > >Winbench relate? I doubt there's a big difference.
- >
- > I've been told that the 3.1 gives *much* lower numbers than 2.5. I recall
- > something like 50%, but am not sure. There *is* a big difference.
-
- This is often the case, but I don't believe you can make a blanket statement.
- Since they've apparently changed the formula for weighting the results, I
- would think that the difference would depend on how well a given card did
- on the various tests that make up the Winmark score. For example, if card
- A was really fast at line drawing but really slow at bitblt's, and card B
- was just the opposite, their scores between 2.5 and 3.1 would change in
- different ways -- one could conceivably even score higher on 3.1 (though
- I haven't seen that happen -- maybe more than just the weighting formula
- changed).
-
- Enough speculation, though, how about a solid data point -- my card (a G-HOST
- S3 local bus card) scores about 10% lower on 3.1, with a score of 9.1M as
- opposed to 10.1M on 2.5. What have the rest of you found?
-
- - tunny
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