Card: Blonde Leffe CPU Man: GenuineAMD Mem: 127 OS: BEER Driver: 2.00.10.00 CPU ID: x86 Special Edition Ver: 103 AlphaTest: 2870 Mode: 1024 x 768 x 96 bits (240 Hz) Multi CPU: False Alpha: True TwoDTest: N/A Date: 10/24/2002 CPU: 2560 PerPixel: True Over All: 2870 Card: RADEON 9700 PRO CPU Man: AuthenticAMD Mem: 63 [...]
For example, many of the alpha blending effects in Windows XP benefit from driver support for layered windows. Some drivers include support for layering and others do not. A card that is fast at 3D games that doesn’t support these APIs will be significantly slower in 2D.
Despite the name, XPBench is not really designed to be a skinning benchmark program (we suggest checking out programs like SkinBench for that). Rather, XPBench is specifically designed to query which Windows XP features a video card/driver combination supports and then to demonstrate the performance improvements supporting the XP API’s makes. At this time, XPBench [...]