AMD Turns Up The Heat: Athlon XP 1900+

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Benchmarks: 18 Rigorous Tests

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OpenGL Performance	Quake 3 Arena "Demo 1" and "NV15 Demo"
Direct3D Performance	3D Mark 2000 and 3D Mark 2001
3D Rendering	Newtek Lightwave 7b
3D Rendering	SPECviewperf "Lightscape"
MP3 Audio Encoding	Lame MP3 Encoder
MPEG-2 Video Encoding	Pinnacle Studio 7
MPEG-4 Video Encoding	Flask Mpeg 0.6 and DivX codec 4.02
Office Performance	Sysmark 2001
Archiving	WinACE 2.04
Compiling Linux Kernel	Suse Linux 7.3 (Kernel 2.4.13)
SiSoft Sandra 2001	CPU and Multimedia Bench

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.