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Coined "The Gamer's Benchmark",
3DMark 2001 from MadOnion, is a very well know DirectX 8
benchmark, that absolutely hammers on the host CPU and
graphics subsystem. We ran the default test that sets
up resolution and color depth to 1024X768 at 32 bits.
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| MadOnion's 3DMark 2001 With The
2GHz. Pentium |
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Max Payne moves out |
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Here we see much of the same for
the Pentium 4. Of course, it is important to note the
400MHz. clock speed advantage, at 1.8GHz., of the baseline
Intel system. Regardless what is important to
remember, in any of our tests here, is that these are the
top "stock" clock speeds from AMD and Intel. So all
that is left is to understand is the cost model. We'll
touch upon this subject more in our conclusion.
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| Bapco Sysmark 2001 Content
Creation and 3D Winbench Processor Test |
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All business, fun
and games |
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Here we ran the
Content Creation module of Bapco's Sysmark 2001
benchmark suite. Scores were taken on a Windows 2000
clean installation. This benchmark uses various
"professional" Content Creation tools like, Adobe Photoshop®
6.0, Adobe Premiere® 6.0, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7,
Macromedia Dreamweaver 4, and Macromedia Flash 5. The
Pentium 4 out classes the Athlon in every test, by a
significant margin. At 2GHz. the P4 is 25% faster than
a 1.4GHz. Athlon. This actually scales pretty well
with the P4's 30% clock speed advantage.
Ziff Davis'
3D Winbench is an aging benchmark optimized for legacy
processor platforms like the Pentium III and the
original Athlon. We ran the processor test and for
sure the P4 leads but not by a wide margin, until it hits
2GHz.
Quake 3
Arena and Final Assessments
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