AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 & 3800+: Socket 939 Has Arrived
X2 & Unreal Tournament
Next, we did some benchmarking with Epic's Unreal Tournament 2003. When testing with UT 2003, we use a specific set of game engine initialization settings, that ensure all of the systems are being benchmarked with the exact same in-game settings and graphical options. Like the other in-game tests, we used a "Low-Quality" setting with UT2003 that isolates CPU performance.
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The Unreal Engine has traditionally performed very well on the AMD Athlon line of processors and that tradition continues here. The Socket 939 Athlon 64 FX-53 outperforms the fastest Intel CPU by over 53 frames per second. The 3800+ finished about 14 FPS behind the FX-53, but at over 230 FPS it was also plenty fast enough to outpace anything Intel has to offer at the moment.
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For our last test, we used X2: The Threat's rolling demo version, which can be downloaded from http://www.egosoft.com/. If you haven't already seen this game, check it out. It is simply a gorgeous, multi-faceted space simulation. Like all of the other in-game tests, we ran X2 at a low resolution, and to further reduce the video card's affect on performance, we disabled bump-maps as well.
The Socket 939 Athlon 64 FX-53 and 3800+ would have walked away with another 1 - 2 finish in the X2 benchmark, had it not been for the 3.4GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. At almost 215 FPS, the P4 E.E. finished a few frames per second ahead of the FX-53 and 3800+, but that was the only Intel CPU that was capable of outrunning AMD's new flagship parts.
