Benchmarks - RealStorm

This tool does realtime raytracing, a very computational intensive application that does software rendering. Thus, it requires high speed processors to do it. The author said "Of course 3D-Accelerators are getting faster too and evolve feature-wise, but beyond a certain level of detail, a polygon has to be smaller than a pixel on the screen. In this case, there is absolutely no reason to use polygon routines. So we decided to use platonic solids combined with boolean algebra and raytracing.

We chose this because it uses very complex mathematic algorithms which takes almost 100% of calculations are done by the main cpu.

There are 5 real time rendering scenes, RCMP, HouseV, HouseR, HouseG and White. The 3 boards with the same CPU and RAM goes through the same benchmark and we found that all three boards gets very close in scores except in the HouseR rendering scene. In fact, for all the scenes, the frame rate in real time hardly exceeds 12fps. That is how CPU intensive this thing can be.

From the chart, we can see the P5B deluxe performs slightly better in the White test with a score of 1200 against 1196-1199 using other boards. While we don't see much difference in HouseG tests. HouseR tests shows a lead of 20 points against the other chipsets although it lost to P5W DH Deluxe.

In the HouseV test, we also see a better score of 2904 against the other boards scoring 10 points lower. The P5W DH Deluxe did equally well. In the last test, RCMP, we can see that it has a lead of 20 points against the other boards.

Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 and ASUS P5W DH Deluxe scored similarly, this is probably because we run this three boards in ASYNC CAS 5, 5-5-15, 2T, DDR-800 while the others are running in SYNC DDR-533 CAS 3.3-3-8,1T.

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