3dmark 2003, same result with different configuration

[ice]

hi!

i'm reading some compared result from 3dmark 2003 website
http://service.futuremark.com/orb/projectsearch.jsp

i cannot explain why 2 user with same video card (ati radeon 9800 pro), same
cpu (p3@1ghz), same operating system (XP) and same resolution test
(1024x768@32-bit) but very different system RAM (1=1GB vs 2=512MB) and very
different video memory (1=256MB vs 2=128MB) get similar score...

user1 gets 4995 and user2 gets 4910

a screen shoot is here http://i10.tinypic.com/4v5i35d.jpg

any idea?
thanks
-ice-

 

[First of One]

1. Did you expect these two systems to give significantly different
performances in real games?
2. What does that say about the usefulness of a synthetic benchmark like
3DMark 03?