This file contains benchmark results of Video Speed and Memory Speed
and demonstrates the effect of S3 Speed Up.

All tests were done on a Pentium 133MHz Triton board with an
ELSA Winner 2000AVI-4 (S3 Vision 968, 4MB VRAM) graphics card.


Video Speed  Version 3.10  Copyright (c) 1993,96 Dietmar Meschede

Testing VGA mode 13h (320x200x256) [S3SPDUP not installed] ...

 8-bit move     96 x 64 KB  =   6 MB    0.99 s    6.1 MB/s    99.6 frames/s
 8-bit write    96 x 64 KB  =   6 MB    0.99 s    6.1 MB/s
 8-bit read     32 x 64 KB  =   2 MB    1.27 s    1.6 MB/s

16-bit move    256 x 64 KB  =  16 MB    1.17 s   13.7 MB/s   224.0 frames/s
16-bit write   256 x 64 KB  =  16 MB    1.17 s   13.7 MB/s
16-bit read     48 x 64 KB  =   3 MB    0.95 s    3.1 MB/s

32-bit move    288 x 64 KB  =  18 MB    1.15 s   15.6 MB/s   255.9 frames/s
32-bit write   288 x 64 KB  =  18 MB    1.15 s   15.6 MB/s
32-bit read     64 x 64 KB  =   4 MB    0.97 s    4.1 MB/s

Moves are done from main memory to video memory.


Video Speed  Version 3.10  Copyright (c) 1993,96 Dietmar Meschede

Testing VGA mode 13h (320x200x256) [S3SPDUP installed and active] ...

 8-bit move     96 x 64 KB  =   6 MB    0.98 s    6.1 MB/s   100.0 frames/s
 8-bit write    96 x 64 KB  =   6 MB    0.98 s    6.1 MB/s
 8-bit read     32 x 64 KB  =   2 MB    1.27 s    1.6 MB/s

16-bit move    256 x 64 KB  =  16 MB    1.20 s   13.4 MB/s   219.0 frames/s
16-bit write   256 x 64 KB  =  16 MB    1.16 s   13.8 MB/s
16-bit read     48 x 64 KB  =   3 MB    0.95 s    3.2 MB/s

32-bit move    640 x 64 KB  =  40 MB    1.28 s   31.1 MB/s   510.1 frames/s
32-bit write   832 x 64 KB  =  52 MB    1.64 s   31.8 MB/s
32-bit read     96 x 64 KB  =   6 MB    0.95 s    6.3 MB/s

Moves are done from main memory to video memory.


Video Speed  Version 3.10  Copyright (c) 1993,96 Dietmar Meschede

Testing VESA mode 0101h (640x480x256) [S3SPDUP not installed] ...

 8-bit move    160 x 64 KB  =  10 MB    1.02 s    9.8 MB/s    33.5 frames/s
 8-bit write   160 x 64 KB  =  10 MB    1.02 s    9.8 MB/s
 8-bit read     32 x 64 KB  =   2 MB    1.12 s    1.8 MB/s

16-bit move    288 x 64 KB  =  18 MB    1.00 s   18.0 MB/s    61.5 frames/s
16-bit write   288 x 64 KB  =  18 MB    1.00 s   18.0 MB/s
16-bit read     32 x 64 KB  =   2 MB    0.87 s    2.3 MB/s

32-bit move    288 x 64 KB  =  18 MB    1.00 s   18.0 MB/s    61.5 frames/s
32-bit write   288 x 64 KB  =  18 MB    1.00 s   18.0 MB/s
32-bit read     48 x 64 KB  =   3 MB    1.10 s    2.7 MB/s

Moves are done from main memory to video memory.


Video Speed  Version 3.10  Copyright (c) 1993,96 Dietmar Meschede

Testing VESA mode 0101h (640x480x256) [S3SPDUP installed and active] ...

 8-bit move    160 x 64 KB  =  10 MB    1.02 s    9.8 MB/s    33.5 frames/s
 8-bit write   160 x 64 KB  =  10 MB    1.02 s    9.8 MB/s
 8-bit read     32 x 64 KB  =   2 MB    1.12 s    1.8 MB/s

16-bit move    416 x 64 KB  =  26 MB    1.02 s   25.5 MB/s    87.0 frames/s
16-bit write   416 x 64 KB  =  26 MB    1.02 s   25.5 MB/s
16-bit read     64 x 64 KB  =   4 MB    1.12 s    3.6 MB/s

32-bit move   1088 x 64 KB  =  68 MB    1.00 s   67.9 MB/s   231.9 frames/s
32-bit write  1152 x 64 KB  =  72 MB    1.00 s   72.1 MB/s
32-bit read    112 x 64 KB  =   7 MB    0.98 s    7.2 MB/s

Moves are done from main memory to video memory.


Memory Speed  Version 3.10  Copyright (c) 1993,96 Dietmar Meschede

MEMSPEED /? shows a help screen.  To stop testing press any key.

Using 3072 MB memory for tests.

Write:      86016 x    1 KB  =   84 MB   1.00 s   83.6 MB/s
Write:       1344 x   64 KB  =   84 MB   1.00 s   83.6 MB/s
Write:         42 x 2048 KB  =   84 MB   1.00 s   83.6 MB/s

Read:      172032 x    1 KB  =  168 MB   1.00 s  167.7 MB/s
Read:        1728 x   64 KB  =  108 MB   1.01 s  107.3 MB/s
Read:          34 x 2048 KB  =   68 MB   1.04 s   65.6 MB/s

Move:       86016 x    1 KB  =   84 MB   1.01 s   82.8 MB/s
Move:        1024 x   64 KB  =   64 MB   1.01 s   63.5 MB/s
Move:          20 x 2048 KB  =   40 MB   0.99 s   40.5 MB/s