3D System Tests
While our 3D system tests are designed to scale as much as possible with system changes, rather than graphics card performance, the graphics card is obviously still a point of influence. Bear that in mind as we run through the 3D system tests, the AN7 was benchmarked without the advantage of Radeon 9800XT, which was used in the other systems.Quake 3 first.
With Radeon power, that score creeps up to around 400fps (based on prior testing in other nForce2 boards) and the AN7 again shows no margin of difference between previously evaluated Socket A boards like the DFI. Not the hardest of 3D tests for any of the protagonists.
A harder graph to evaluate without the use of 9800XT in the AN7, it nonetheless would sit around 1300 marks from the Athlon 64 system which uses 1MB of L2 to great effect.
The AN7 would sit around the level of the IC7/3.2P4 score with a 9800XT and the Athlon 64 simply runs away with things, games performance is its forte, owing a lot to the 1MB of L2. Again, its competitive performance with recently evaluated Socket A nForce2 boards is good, with less than a percentage point of deviance in UT2003.