AMD's 0.13-micron Thoroughbred - Cool but Slipping at 2200+

3D Gaming Performance Jedi Knight 2 - High Quality - 1024x768x32 Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4B 2.4GHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0A GHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz 116.6 113.4 110.2 109.7 104.3 104.3 101.7 97.3 96.3 92.5 88.6 83.0 77.2 | 0 | 23 | 47 | 70 | 93 | 117 | 140

Current games are much less limited by GPUs and are thus more CPU dependent. With NVIDIA's GeForce4 Ti 4600 already able to run almost all of today's games at the highest possible settings flawlessly, it isn't too surprising that CPU performance has a much bigger impact on the overall performance picture.

3D Gaming Performance Comanche 4 - High Quality - 1024x768x32 Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4B 2.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0A GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz 51.2 49.8 48.9 46.0 44.5 42.4 42.2 41.3 38.9 36.4 34.9 32.9 29.7 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 31 | 41 | 51 | 61