3DMark06 Scores

FutureMark's 3DMark06

Note that 3DMark06 is heavily weighted towards 3D card power rather then CPU power.

1443 (SM2: 546 HDR/SM3: 549 CPU: 834)
AMD Opteron 148
PC3200 2GB (2x1GB) ECC DDR RAM
Asus SK8N motherboard
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 (128MB AGP)
NVIDIA 81.95

My GeForce 6800 shows some signs of aging. Definitely no longer the fastest thing on the block (not that it was when I bought it). Some of the dual-core configurations with newer video cards are in the 3500-4500 score range (with CPU scores of 1500-2000). Some of the single-core folks are scoring 3000+ 3DMark06 with CPU scores of only 900, so a newer video card could make a significant difference in this score.

Rather then buying a new PC this year, I may purchase one more AGP video card (NVIDIA GeForce 7800GS) for $300 and stretch this PC's lifespan for another 2 years. I'll have to do some research and see what kinds of 3DMark and AquaMark scores people can get with a similar CPU and a 7800GS.

172 (SM2: 79 HDR/SM3: n/a CPU: 711)
AMD Athlon64 3000+
PC3200 (2x512MB) DDR RAM
Asus A8N-VM CSM motherboard
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 integrated graphics (64MB)

This score reinforces that integrated graphics solutions are really not designed at all for gaming. Again, putting a $50-$75 video card in this would bring the scores up a lot and make it quite a bit faster. (Such as the $70 GeForce 6600 PCIe cards.)

(All systems are stock settings (no overclocking), usually with 7200rpm hard drives. If I get a chance this week, I'll run some tests on some older Dell systems at the main office.)

Update #1: Looking at other 7800GS scores, I could expect a pretty decent boost up to around 1500 for the two GPU score portions. Whether that translates into 3x faster performance is unlikely, but I'd probably see a 2x performance gain. I'll probably pickup an eVGA version of it within the next few weeks.

More scores:

172 (SM2: 80 HDR/SM3: n/a CPU: 1632)
AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+
PC3200 (2x1GB) DDR RAM
Asus A8N5X motherboard
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 PCIe (64MB)

194 (SM2: 89 HDR/SM3: n/a CPU: 1493)
AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+
DDR2 533 (2x1GB) RAM
Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 integrated graphics (32MB)

3003 (SM2: 1324 HDR/SM3: 1279 CPU: 834)
AMD Opteron 148
PC3200 2GB (2x1GB) ECC DDR RAM
Asus SK8N motherboard
NVIDIA GeForce 7800GS (256MB AGP)
NVIDIA 91.47

(The 7800GS is a nice upgrade over my older 6800.)