Athlon XP Meets P4: A Comparison Of All CPUs
Testing Procedure: Peculiarities, Continued
The picture shows the test system set-up for all the AMD Athlon XP processors.
The picture shows the test system set-up for all the Intel Pentium 4 processors.
Benchmarks: 19 Rigorous Tests
OpenGL Performance | Quake 3 Arena "Demo 1" and "NV15 Demo" |
Direct3D Performance | 3D Mark 2000 and 3D Mark 2001 |
3D Rendering | Cinema 4D XL R6 "Shading" |
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 4.02 codec |
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 |
Since we want to convey the widest spectrum possible of practical benchmarks, we performed all the tests under Windows XP and completely re-configured the tests. In total, we used 19 different benchmarks in order to obtain the most complete, the most well-balanced view of how each individal AMD and Intel processor performs. We continued to determine OpenGL performance using four different Quake tests - Direct3D performance from the DirectX package is determined using the 3D Mark 2000 (Direct X 7) and the 3D Mark 2001 (DirectX8). The different MPEG-encoding benchmarks portray 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 DVD film into MPEG-4 format using Flask Mpeg and DivX codec. A new addition to our benchmark suite is MPEG-2 file encoding using the video editing software "Pinnacle Studio 7."
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stascom i'm playing around with some old hardware (A-XP 1600+, 512MB, 9600XT), and this is nice to read. Nostalgic, if you will. As fun, as it is to play BC2 on my 6-core Phenom and HD6870, there is just something exciting about getting an old machine running with some of the highest end hardware of its day. I have a P-III machine with Voodoo 3 running Unreal with Glide, how often do you see that? :PReply