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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? The Pentium 4 has always exceled under Quake III
Arena so it's no surprise to see the results. The various
systems tested were all using an Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64
MB graphics card with the latest NVIDIA 30.82 drivers. The big
surprise is that each Intel Pentium 4 processors starting from
2.0GHz beats AMD's Athlon XP 2200+ 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 2.8GHz is 8%
better than the one obtained with the AMD Athlon XP 2200+. The
Pentium 4 2.8GHz beats the Pentium 4 2.66GHz by less than 1%
showing that at a certain point the CPU frequency increase won't
help increasing game performance unless the graphic cards is
changed. Finally the Pentium 4 2.8GHz is 5% faster than the
Pentium 4 2.0a GHz.
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MadOnion's 3D Mark 2001 has become an other reference when
benchmarking 3D performance of PCs. We used it with our faithful Hercules 3D
Prophet II Ultra 64MB. The Pentium 4 2.8GHz gives a result 1.5%
better than the Pentium 4 2.66GHz. This demonstrates as with the
Quake III benchmark that at some point the CPU frequency doen't
help significantly anymore to increase framerate with a
-limited- GPU, in this a GeForce II Ultra. The Pentium 4
2.8GHz is 12% faster than the Athlon XP 2200+. The Athlon XP
2200+ slightly beats the Pentium 4 2.2GHz 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 2200+ is on top of the race
outperforming the Pentium 4 2.8GHz by 4%. The Pentium 4 2.8GHz is 4%
faster than the Pentium 2.66GHz. In this test, the Pentium 4 2.8GHz is
36% faster than the Pentium 4 2.0a GHz!
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