AMD Duron 900 and Roadmap Update

Serious Sam is a recently released game based on a completely independent engine developed by croteam.  The game has a relatively high polygon count and deals with a number of outdoor scenes and the complexities that go along with them. 

The standings continue to remain the same, as the Pentium III is able to edge out the Athlon for first place and here the Duron 900 is offering 84% of the performance of the 1GHz Athlon. 

CPU scaling is actually slightly improved under Serious Sam as the Duron 900 is 3.3% faster than the Duron 850, compared to the 2.5% increase we have seen in most of the other benchmarks.

Remember, as games continue to increase in complexity they will become much more demanding on not only your graphics hardware but your CPUs and memory subsystems as well.

Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing is another relatively new game however it doesn't seem to be scaling well with CPU speed as well as previous tests since the Duron 900 isn't even 2% faster than the 850.  At the same time, the Duron 900 offers 90% of the performance of the 1GHz Athlon, indicating that the limitations present once you get high enough in clock speed are either related to memory bandwidth or the graphics card.