Now Trident's fingered over 3DMark01SE results

Dom · Jun 2, 2003, 03:45 PM

THE LAST WEEK was like a McArthyite witch hunt for graphics vendors in a bid to discover which ones should burn at the benchmarketing stake.

We now think that Trident can be added to the list of potential witches and we're inspecting its body closely for the tell-tale "Devil's Bench Mark".

A few weeks ago, we received a letter from a reader and he'd bought a notebook powered by Trident's XP4 – a promising chip that never made it to the wider world of the desktop marketing dorks, although it looked pretty good on paper.

Our friend tested the Toshiba Tecra M1, using the Trident XP4 and a Pentium-M 1.6 GHz with 512MB RAM versus his dad's Dell Latitude D600 with a 32MB, 64-bit (most are 128-bit) Radeon 9000, PentiumM 1.6GHz and 512MB RAM and WinXP.

His score dropped by half if he just changed name of 3dmark01SE to, let's say, inquirer.exe.

After we received this email, we contacted Trident and got its official explanation on this. The Trident executive told us that Trident hardware has 50 per cent of the transistors of its competitors but still delivered about 70 per cent of its competitors' performance.

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The_Neon_Cowboy · Jun 2, 2003, 08:53 PM

omfg ha ha ha haaaa

eyeguy616 · Jun 2, 2003, 09:31 PM

heheh heheh HAHAAHA HAAAA HAHAHAHA

Ah, at least the XP4 doesn't suck as bad as their older cards.... *eyes the old 4mb pci trident in the corner*
~eyeguy616

nForcer · Jun 2, 2003, 11:40 PM

God - is it ever gonna end?

Jun 2, 2003, 03:45 PM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Now Trident's fingered over 3DMark01SE results THE LAST WEEK was like a McArthyite witch hunt for graphics vendors in a bid to discover which ones should burn at the benchmarketing stake. We now think that Trident can be added to the list of potential witches and we're inspecting its body closely for the tell-tale "Devil's Bench Mark". A few weeks ago, we received a letter from a reader and he'd bought a notebook powered by Trident's XP4 – a promising chip that never made it to the wider world of the desktop marketing dorks, although it looked pretty good on paper. Our friend tested the Toshiba Tecra M1, using the Trident XP4 and a Pentium-M 1.6 GHz with 512MB RAM versus his dad's Dell Latitude D600 with a 32MB, 64-bit (most are 128-bit) Radeon 9000, PentiumM 1.6GHz and 512MB RAM and WinXP. His score dropped by half if he just changed name of 3dmark01SE to, let's say, inquirer.exe. After we received this email, we contacted Trident and got its official explanation on this. The Trident executive told us that Trident hardware has 50 per cent of the transistors of its competitors but still delivered about 70 per cent of its competitors' performance. Read More...

Jun 2, 2003, 08:53 PM	#2
The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	omfg ha ha ha haaaa __________________

Jun 2, 2003, 09:31 PM	#3
eyeguy616 ZZzzzzzzzzzz........... Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 324 Rep Power: 0	heheh heheh HAHAAHA HAAAA HAHAHAHA Ah, at least the XP4 doesn't suck as bad as their older cards.... eyes the old 4mb pci trident in the corner ~eyeguy616

Jun 2, 2003, 11:40 PM	#4
nForcer Twice the fun! Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,404 Rep Power: 0	God - is it ever gonna end?