MESH Matrix II 920 (Phenom II) PC System
3DMark is a popular synthetic gaming benchmark used by many gamers and overclockers to gauge the performance of their PC’s. All 3DMark runs were performed a total of 5 times with the highest and lowest results being removed and an average calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Call of Duty 4 is a stunning DirectX 9.0c based game that really looks awesome and has a very full feature set. With lots of advanced lighting, smoke and water effects, the game has excellent explosions along with fast gameplay. Using the in-built Call Of Duty features, a 10-minute long gameplay demo was recorded and replayed on each of the GPU’s using the /timedemo command a total of 5 times. The highest and lowest FPS results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Crysis is without doubt one of the most visually stunning and hardware-challenging games to date. By using CrysisBench – a tool developed independently of Crysis – we performed a total of 5 timedemo benchmarks using a GPU-intensive pre-recorded demo. To ensure the most accurate results, the highest and lowest benchmark scores were then removed and an average calculated from the remaining three.
Result Observations
With both the MESH Matrix II and the YOYOTech Spartan 300 being based around the same HD 4850 graphics card, it’s interesting to see the Matrix II gaining the upper hand by quite a significant amount in the 3DMark 06, 3DMark Vantage and Call of Duty 4 results. Only in 3DMark 05 and Crysis does the Spartan 300 give it anything to worry about, and even then the Matrix II manages to redeem itself at the higher resolutions.
