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Dmod:
I've been trying to decide whether to upgrade my PIII and if so what to replace it with.  I ran some benchmark tests for comparison to other results at

http://benchmark.mameworld.net/header.html

I've been using v102.  In some previous testing, I found that anything above v102 results in a drastic slowdown on the PIII.  I followed the guidelines at the site for MAME parameters.  I just eliminated the ones that aren't supported anymore.

I tried to find ROMs that had been tested against most of the other processors and selected the ones that I thought were borderline and would give good comparisons against other processors.  As a result, most of the ROMS I tested were challenging and the results tend to be lower than desired frame rates.

Hopefully this data will be useful to others.  I have another machine that I plan to test (Core 2 Duo E6300) and will post those results when I get around to it.


ROM  MAME Build  CPU  MHz  FPS 
1943  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  136 
batrider  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  62 
cbaj  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  25 
crusnusa  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  15 
dariusg  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  28 
gdarius  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  24 
kof99  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  71 
mk  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  47 
mslug3  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  66 
nbajam  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  40 
radm  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  18 
rtype  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  92 
sfex  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  23 
ssf2t  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  71 
starblad  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  14 
stunrun  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  41 
tekken  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  22 
term2  0.102  Intel Pentium III  933  53 
spystyle:
Dmod,

You know all about MAME's speed, nice!

I can pick your brain :)

What versions of MAME do you think are fastest? I had the idea that .60 and the like were very quick compared to the newer builds.

What versions would you recommend for budget systems? Like P2 500mhz and P3  500mhz?

Do you have any documentation detailing MAME's speed and how to speed it up?

Thanks,
Craig

p.s. Thanks for sharing your batch file to benchmark mame! It's wild to see DigDug intro at 400 fps. I quickly tested ver 36 against 61 and 92. I found 61 was practically the same speed as 36, but 92 was 100 FPS slower than 61.


digdug mame92 379pfs
digdug mame61 475fps
digdug mame36 478fps
Dmod:
Spystyle,

I'm no expert but I did some testing on my PIII between v078 and v110.  The Mame Benchmarks site isn't mine.  But I've found it very useful, and just recently added some of my own data to it.

For some more info, check out this thread:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=63584.0

I tested a bunch of versions between 0.078 and 0.102 and found only a minor slowdown, so I've been sticking to 0.102 in order to include some of the newer ROMs.  Above 0.102 things slowed down drastically.

An alternative to the regular MAME build is to use fastmame78 or fastmame84.  This yields higher speeds.
 
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EDIT:  This is probably a better answer to your question...

Aaron Giles recently benchmarked PacMan all the way from 0.37 to 0.113.  See the results here:

http://aarongiles.com/?p=208


spystyle:
Thanks for that, it's interesting.

Although Pac-Man is a very simple game. Like he wrote at the bottom, Rastan would be a good choice, I am anxious to see how that test comes out.

But now that I have your benchmarking batch file I suppose I could do it myself :)

Cheers,
Craig
Dmod:
I'd like to see something like mslug3.  When I tested mslug3 I saw a big drop in fps for versions between 102 and 106 which pacman doesn't seem to show.
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