CPU Scaling Analysis, Part 1: AMD Athlon

SYSmark 2000: Windows 98 SE

The 50% clock speed increase from 800 to 1200 MHz leads to a performance gain of almost 35%. That is quite a good result. This good scaling makes clear that the Athlon architecture is far away from exhausted. I guess we will be seeing lots of future CPUs based on the Athlon architecture.

Mercedes Benz Truck Racing

We already indicated MBTR several times to be a very demanding 3D game. Actually there are only few game titles available that are really able to give fast graphic cards a hard time. 1024x768 has become some standard for most users today, which is why I decided to use this resolution here. The differences are very small, showing without any doubt that the processor does not have too much influence on those results. The graphics card is definitely the bottleneck.