http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3883
------- Additional Comments From ns03ja@brocku.ca 2005-30-12 03:59 ------- I've tested this on 2 reasonably close systems, less the video cards (Athlon XP 2000+, 512M SDR RAM, GeForce 5950, Kubuntu 5.10 and Pentium-M 1.3 Ghz 512M DDR RAM, Radeon 7500 Mobility, Gentoo). The Intel laptop loads 3DMark in ~5 seconds, while the AMD desktop takes ~15-20 seconds. Both are using fresh ~/.wine directories, and in both cases native msvcrt was required. Perhaps the 3DMark startup is highly memory/cache bound? The Pentium-M does have significantly more cache compared to the Athlon, as well as faster RAM in that system, I'm really just speculating about this though.
Note that if you have 3DMark use a resolution that isn't your current resolution, you'll need to capture it inside a virtual desktop, or it'll die with an error about losing focus when it changes resolution.
A final thing I'd like to point out is that none of the high quality (game) tests run on the Radeon 7500 system, whereas they have no problems on the GeForce 5950 system.