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The Expendable timedemo serves two purposes; to demonstrate a 3D card's Direct3D performance and to show the penalty for increasing the color rendering from 16-bit to 32-bit. As a Direct3D test, Expendable showed the same pattern as the Quake 2 Crusher timedemo. The performance with different CPUs was nicely spaced at 800x600 and 1024x768, but the Falcon SE Xentor scores again grouped together at 1600x1200. The framerate penalty between 16 and 32-bit rendering was almost non-existent at 800x600, and with the Intel CPUs at 1024x768. The only 1024x768 anomaly is the comparatively large framerate drop with the Athlon 600. At 1600x1200, the 16/32-bit penalty grew quite a bit larger, but it was the same with the P3-450, Celeron 550 and Athlon 600.
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