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- From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Does VESA Local Bus put a huge strain on a CPU?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.060023.29750@utdallas.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 06:00:23 GMT
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- >>Of course, this is where "value" comes into question. If you buy an
- >>ISA system and get an ATI Ultra Pro that give you a 25million winmark,
- >>and someone else pays $500 more for a system with a vl-bus and a vl-bus
- >>ATI Ultra Pro that gets 30million winmarks, which is better?
- >
- >WinMarks do not really take into account the video speed advantages Local Bus
- >provides. Do not make a conclusion about speed based on winmarks.
- >Also, many vendors are now optimizing their hardware and/or drivers to get
- >higher winmarks. (Analagous to the optimizing done with Dhrystone.)
-
- Why are Winmarks not good? They seem like a good benchmark of overall
- video performance, as compared to something like the Landmark v2.0 video
- cps test.
-
- Granted, optimizing hardware/software *just* to get higher Winmarks is not
- good.
-