Revving up in the New Year: AMD Athlon64 3400+ versus Intel P4 3.2 GHz
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Table of contents
- 1 – The Fours Have It: Athlon64 3400+ For 2004
- 2 – Athlon64 3400+ In Detail
- 3 – Cool & Quiet: Glad To See It, Too Bad It's Largely Ignored
- 4 – Overclocking: Looks Good!
- 5 – Test Setup
- 6 – Benchmark Results
- 7 – SPECviewperf 7.1
- 8 – SPECviewperf 7.1, Continued
- 9 – OpenGL Games: Serious Sam
- 10 – OpenGL Games: Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
- 11 – Synthetic: 3D Mark 2001 SE
- 12 – Games: Comanche 4
- 13 – Games: Unreal Tournament 2003
- 14 – Games: Splinter Cell
- 15 – Games: Warcraft III - The Frozen Thorne
- 16 – Synthetic: 3D Mark 2003
- 17 – Game: X2 - The Threat Rolling
- 18 – Game: Gun Metal
- 19 – Games: AquaMark3
- 20 – MPEG-Encoding: Main Concept MPEG-Encoder
- 21 – MPEG-Encoding: Pinnacle Studio 8.8
- 22 – MPEG-Encoding: Xmpeg & Divx 5.1 Pro
- 23 – MPEG-Encoding: Windows Media Encoder 9
- 24 – MPEG-Encoding: MS Movie Maker 2
- 25 – Magix MP3 Maker 2004 Diamond
- 26 – Lame MP3 Encoder
- 27 – Steinberg Nuendo 2
- 28 – Sysmark 2002
- 29 – Winrar 3.2
- 30 – Newtek Lightwave 7.5
- 31 – Cinema 4D XL 8.1
- 32 – 3D Studio Max 5.1
- 33 – Mathematica 5
- 34 – PC Mark 2002 Pro
- 35 – SiSoft Sandra Max 3
- 36 – Conclusion: More Speed Is Good
- 37 – More on this topic
The Athlon64 continues to gain in popularity since its September 2003 launch. One reason for this is that the processors are generally readily available; another, however, is that more and more manufacturers now make motherboards for the processor with Socket 754.
But that alone is not enough to justify the around $400 / €425 asking price for an Athlon64 3200+ - not exactly pocket change. AMD is aware of that fact and responded a few weeks ago with the Athlon64 3000+. It's a 3200+ with a pared down 512 kB L2 cache and the same 2.0 GHz clock speed. At $225 / €250, the price is the only thing they skimped on.
With the introduction of the 3400+, the product portfolio is now being rounded off at the upper end. From a technical standpoint, everything is as you'd expect: 1 MB L2 cache, DDR400 memory controller and a HyperTransport channel for communicating with the chipset. The processor speed is the only thing that's different, rising from 2.0 to 2.2 GHz to put it on a par with the clock rate of the Athlon64 FX-51.
- Omid Editorial [CPU & Components]
- Hard drive constantly revving up and down [Storage]
- What's all this gum-beating about "tests"? [Audio]
- Radeon X1550 card sounds very loud revving very high [Graphic & Displays]
- GA-MA790XT-UD4P won't post, vga fan "revving" [Motherboards & Memory]
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