Clash Of The OC'd Titans: Athlon XP 2300+ vs. Pentium 4/3000

3D-Rendering Performance: SPECviewperf "Lightscape"

The Intel Pentium 4/3000 is significantly faster than the Athlon XP 2300+ at creating an MPEG 2 film with Pinnacle Studio 7. Thanks to RDRAM, the Pentium 4/2600 can almost keep up with the Pentium 4/3000.