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PIII 933 and E6300 Benchmarks Added to Mame Benchmarks Site
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.