AMD Turns Up The Heat: Athlon XP 1900+

Benchmarks: 18 Rigorous Tests

We performed a total of 18 different benchmark tests (the same used in the last comparison ) in order to obtain the most complete, the most well-balanced view of how the processors perform, only this time the focus was on the Athlon XP 1900+. We continued to determine OpenGL performance using four different Quake tests - Direct3D performance from the DirectX package is determined using the 3D Mark 2000 (based on DirectX 7) and the 3D Mark 2001 (based on DirectX 8).

The different MPEG-encoding benchmarks represent a comprehensive testing scenario - the Lame MP3 Encoder was used to encode a 178 MB WAV file into "MPEG-1 Layer 3 Format." Still a classic, our MPEG-4 test converts a file from a commercial DVD-ROM into MPEG-4 format using Flask Mpeg and DivX.

A new addition to our benchmark suite is encoding an MPEG-2 file within a project by using "Pinnacle Studio 7" video editing software.