Index
What's a Barton?
What's a Barton (continued)
What are the Benefits of a Larger Cache?
AMD’s Cache Benefits vs. Intel’s Cache Benefits
What about the 400MHz FSB?
The Test
Content Creation Performance
Content Creation Performance (continued)
General Usage Performance
General Usage Performance (continued)
Gaming Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003 (Flyby)
Gaming Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003 (Botmatch)
Gaming Performance - 3DMark 2001SE
Gaming Performance - Quake III Arena
Gaming Performance - Jedi Knight 2
Gaming Performance - Comanche 4
Video Encoding Performance - DiVX/XMpeg 4.5
Video Encoding Performance - Windows Media Encoder 9.0
Video Encoding Performance - Quicktime 6.0 Professional
3D Rendering Performance - 3dsmax R5
3D Rendering Performance - 3dsmax R5 (2)
3D Rendering Performance - 3dsmax R5 (3)
3D Rendering Performance - 3dsmax R5 (4)
3D Rendering Performance - 3dsmax R5 (5)
3D Rendering Performance - Maya 4.0.1
3D Rendering Performance - Lightwave 3D 7.5
3D Rendering Performance - Lightwave 3D 7.5 (2)
3D Rendering Performance - Lightwave 3D 7.5 (3)
Final Words
The Test
Windows
XP Professional Test Bed
Hardware
Configuration
CPU
AMD
Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz)
AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (2.167GHz)
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.083GHz)
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz)
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz)
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz)
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz)
AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz)
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz)
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz)
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz)
AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33GHz)
Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz
Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz
Intel Pentium 4 1.8AGHz
Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz
Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz
Intel Pentium 4 1.6AGHz
Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz
Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz
Motherboard
ASUS
A7N8X - NVIDIA nForce2 Chipset
Intel D850EMV2 - Intel 850E Chipset
RAM
2
x 256MB DDR400 CAS2 Corsair XMS3200 DIMM
2 x 256MB PC1066 Samsung RIMMs
Sound
None
Hard
Drive
80GB
Western Digital Special Edition 8MB Cache ATA/100 HDD
Video Cards
ATI
Radeon 9700 Pro
What about the 400MHz FSB?
Content Creation Performance
Index
What's a Barton?
What's a Barton (continued)
What are the Benefits of a Larger Cache?
AMD’s Cache Benefits vs. Intel’s Cache Benefits
What about the 400MHz FSB?
The Test
Content Creation Performance
Content Creation Performance (continued)
General Usage Performance
General Usage Performance (continued)
Gaming Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003 (Flyby)
Gaming Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003 (Botmatch)
Gaming Performance - 3DMark 2001SE
Gaming Performance - Quake III Arena
Gaming Performance - Jedi Knight 2
Gaming Performance - Comanche 4
Video Encoding Performance - DiVX/XMpeg 4.5
Video Encoding Performance - Windows Media Encoder 9.0
Video Encoding Performance - Quicktime 6.0 Professional
3D Rendering Performance - 3dsmax R5
3D Rendering Performance - 3dsmax R5 (2)
3D Rendering Performance - 3dsmax R5 (3)
3D Rendering Performance - 3dsmax R5 (4)
3D Rendering Performance - 3dsmax R5 (5)
3D Rendering Performance - Maya 4.0.1
3D Rendering Performance - Lightwave 3D 7.5
3D Rendering Performance - Lightwave 3D 7.5 (2)
3D Rendering Performance - Lightwave 3D 7.5 (3)
Final Words
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Anonymous User - Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - link
Curious? Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton is running with Intel's P4 2.5 and above and keep up? Intresting