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 below, it can be clearly seen that the benchmarks are very close to one another. In fact, in this cpu intensive application test, we noticed that a difference in the cpu clk does make a lot of difference to the scores.  So, when reading the benchmarks it is always goood to bear in mind the default fsb the board is running at.

From the chart, we can see the the Gigabyte GA-945G-S3 runs pretty fast, probably due to the slightly high clk speed at 268MHz. It leads the pack in 3 out of the 5 individual benchmarks with a good score of 1206 in White, 473 in HouseG, 2633 in ROMP

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