3DMark weirdness

The boys over at Aceshardware made some interesting discoveries in 3DMark03:


When equipped with a high-end video card, like a Radeon 9700 Pro, the 350 MHz Pentium II was able to more than keep pace with a 1.4 GHz Pentium III Celeron and even a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 in several of the 3DMark03 game tests.


Basically some tests in 3DMark03 are so GPU dependant that it doesn’t matter at all what processor you have. This is of course not true in any real world games, since games generally utilizes both the CPU and the GPU.
Read the article and draw your own conclusions here.
So in the end, boys and girls, 3DMark03 measures videocard performance and not system performance. Have a different opinion? Head over to our forums!