AGP Platform Analysis, Part 2: New Cards, Single-Core System

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Prey is the only OpenGL engine in our test suite, so let's see what happened on the Athlon64 3400+:

The X1950 PROs push their weight around at all resolutions and settings. The Prey engine is clearly more video card dependant than system dependant on the 3400+. Let's compare results to the older AthlonXP 2500+ platform:

Here we see a slightly different story. At 1024x768, the AthlonXP 2500+ was an obvious bottleneck. At 1280x1024, the bottlenecking was far less pronounced, and we see frame rates that are similar across both platforms.

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Don Woligroski
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Don Woligroski was a former senior hardware editor for Tom's Hardware. He has covered a wide range of PC hardware topics, including CPUs, GPUs, system building, and emerging technologies.