AMD Athlon XP 2600/2400+ - Introducing Thoroughbred Revision B

3D Rendering Performance - 3ds max 5

When the Athlon was first released 3 years ago, 3D Studio MAX was a strongpoint of its performance. The Athlon's raw FPU performance was right up 3dsmax's ally and thus it put Intel's competing solutions (at the time, the Pentium III) to shame. Things have changed a bit, the latest version of 3ds max (R5) does have some Pentium 4 optimizations that keep things quite competitive between the Athlon XP and the Pentium 4.

For our 3ds max 5 benchmarks we chose two benchmark scenes that ship with the product - SinglePipe2.max and Underwater_Environment_Finished.max.

3D Rendering Performance - 3ds max 5 SinglePipe2.max - Render Time in Seconds (lower is better) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.13GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.4BGHz Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz (400MHz) 231 241 246 250 250 265 272 274 283 295 298 | 0 | 60 | 119 | 179 | 238 | 298 | 358

The Athlon XP 2600+ takes the gold here with a slight lead over the 2.53GHz Pentium 4, which is followed by a third place XP 2400+.

3D Rendering Performance - 3ds max 5 Underwater_Environment_Finished.max - Render Time in Seconds (lower is better) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.13GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.4BGHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz (400MHz) 310 329 344 362 365 379 383 393 417 456 499 | 0 | 100 | 200 | 299 | 399 | 499 | 599

Both new AMD chips rise to the top here, this time by a significant margin over the competition. The XP 2600+ is almost 10% faster than the Pentium 4 2.53GHz.

3D Rendering Performance - Maya 4.0.1 Rendertest.ma - Render Time in Seconds (lower is better) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.13GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.4BGHz Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz (400MHz) 75 79 85 88 91 91 94 97 99 104 113 | 0 | 23 | 45 | 68 | 90 | 113 | 136

Under Maya the Athlon XP continues to do very well.