ALi MAGiK 1: The Athlon gets a second DDR platform
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 29, 2000 3:07 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
MDK2, although played from a third person perspective, shares many of the same characteristics as your everyday first person shooter. There is a strong focus on textures and not too much of attention is paid to polygon count, making MDK2 a benchmark that will soon be indicative of games of the past, not those of the future where polygon complexity will increase dramatically.
Again, the MAGiK 1 is approximately 5% slower than the AMD 760 when used with PC2100 DDR SDRAM and, once again, when used with PC1600 DDR SDRAM the performance drops to below that of a KT133.
Once again, MDK2 causes the graphics card, in this case a GeForce2 GTS, to be memory bandwidth limited thus causing the nearly identical performance figures.
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