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Games Benchmarks
How can we do a complete roundup of the most powerful processors
without testing them under Quake III Arena, the ultimate gamers'
reference? This test demonstrates how powerful a Pentium 4
processor is, over AMD Athlon XP and Intel Pentium III or
Celeron as well as how important is the performance of the
memory attached to the CPU. The various systems tested were all
using an Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64 MB graphics card with
the latest NVIDIA 28.32 drivers. The big surprise is that each
Intel Pentium 4 processors starting from 1.7GHz beats AMD's
Athlon XP 2000+ showing the unbelievable power resource the
Pentium 4 has in stock for advanced 3D games. The rambus memory
is also decisive for the outstanding Pentium 4 Quake III
framerate. The framerate gets with a Pentium 4 2.4GHz is 10%
better than the one obtained with the AMD Athlon XP 2000+. The
Pentium 4 2.4GHz gives a framerate 1% better than the Pentium 4
2.2GHz showing that at a certain point the frequencies itself
isn't enough to further enhance performance: we deliberately use
a GeForce II Ultra graphics card for our benchmarks since its a
reference graphics card.
With
Quake III Arena, the Celeron 1.3 GHz beats the Pentium III
1.2GHz by 13%. The Athlon XP 2000+ is 48% faster than the
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MadOnion's 3D Mark 2001 has become an other reference when
benchmarking PCs. We used it with our faithful Hercules 3D
Prophet II Ultra 64MB. The Pentium 4 2.4GHz gives a result 6%
better than the one of the Pentium 4 2.2Ghz and outperforms the
Athlon XP 2000+ in almost the same proportions. The addition of
512KB of cache memory boosts the performance of the Pentium 4
2.0AGHz by 6% over the Pentium 4 2.0GHz. |
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To complete our series of multimedia
benchmarks, we tested the latest Pentium 4 with the famous Unreal
Tournament game. As usual we used a GeForce II Ultra 64MB along with
NVIDIA's 28.32 drivers. The test was done in a 640*480*16bits
resolution. We used 'utbench.dem' to test our CPUs. As you
can see, the Pentium 4 2.4GHz/i850 arrives on top with 76.49fps showing
a 3% advance over the Pentium 4 2.2GHz and the Ahtlon XP 2000+. The
Pentium 4 2.2GHz has a small advance over the Athlon XP 2000+. The
Pentium 4 2.0AGHz/i850 outperforms the Pentium 4 2.0GHz by 5%.
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To conclude this extensive benchmark here
are the results we get from AMD NBench 2.0. NBench is a program, made by
AMD, that measures the ability of a CPU to render complex 3D scenes.
It's obviously not optimized for the Pentium 4, and massively biased
toward the Athlon. Nonetheless I thought this was interesting to publish
those results. As you can see the Athlon XP 2000+ is on top of the race
outperforming the Pentium 4 2.4GHz/i850 by 17%! The Pentium 4
2.4Ghz/i850 is 45% faster than the Pentium 4 1.7GHz on the same i850
platform. We see a 10% performance increase for the Pentium 4 2.0a GHz
against the Pentium 4 2.0GHz once again demonstrating the importance of
the level 2 cache memory.
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