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MAME Benchmarks
Taborious:
What are you doing the benchmarks with? and how easy is it to use. I haven't done a lot of benchmarking but would like to start...
Chris:
There's a batch file on that site to run the test. I had to tinker with it a tad to take out options that aren't in MAME anymore. The one I used is:
mame %1 -noafs -nothrottle -ftr 10000 -r 1280x1024x32 -nowaitvsync -norc -nosleep -effect none -nobezel -nooverlay
I saved that as bench1280.bat, so to test, say, Pac-Man, I just do:
bench1280 pacman
on the command line. It'll run through 10,000 frames as fast as possible and exit back to the command line showing the FPS. For games like Pac-Man, 10,000 frames will be over in seconds; for a 3D game that's taxing your system, it could take 15 minutes for the benchmark to run, although theoretically once it's looped through the attract sequence at least once you should be able to exit and still have a reasonable result.
For a couple of the games that have to be calibrated or have a flash RAM prepared, I ignored the first result and ran it again after the calibration or preparation was complete.
Taborious:
You're running the test at 1280 resolution? I'm only running 800x600 I think, so what, if any, is the logic behind the resolution your test at; just whatever one you want?
Chris:
--- Quote from: Taborious on January 02, 2007, 02:48:31 pm ---You're running the test at 1280 resolution? I'm only running 800x600 I think, so what, if any, is the logic behind the resolution your test at; just whatever one you want?
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That's to match the other entries in the chart. The site says to use 1280 for PC monitor output and 800 for a TV or arcade monitor setup. I'll bet the resolution only makes a big FPS difference on vector games.
Chris:
Looking at NewEgg, I'm strongly thinking of getting an Athlon 64 4000+ (San Diego core at 2.4GHz), maybe mildly overclocking it to 2.6. I can get the processor and motherboard for $137 total at NewEgg. The potential competition is the Pentium D 805 (Smithfield core at 2.66GHz); motherboard and processor total $127 at NewEgg. Decisions decisions. The Pentium D is a dual core, but MAME won't use the extra CPU... maybe Windows will? Neither one of these CPUs is on the benchmark table yet...
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