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OpenGL Performance
We will not run any iteration of Quake3 Arena and I have never developed a taste for Serious Sam either, which, as rumor has it, may feature some optimizations for AMD processors. To avoid any of this, we are relying on Bioware's MDK2. It is a bit outdated but since we are not concerned with comparing graphics adapters, this may be just what we need.
MDK2
Frames per second: the benchmark was run with bilinear filtering and HW T&L enabled. The P4 scores appear a bit on the low side but try as we might, they did not change at all, even after a fresh format c:
Resolution increased to 1024 x 768, otherwise, same as above and the overall picture did not change one iota
Video Encoding
We used FlaskMPEG 0.60 with DivX 5.01 to convert a 1 GB DVD file into AVI format. The redering options were set to:
Runtime is given in seconds.
Flask 0.60 / DivX 5.01
Runtime in seconds, lower is better: At 3.2GHz, the P4 takes the lead, followed by the Athlon 64 FX and the P4 3.0. the XP3200+ takes last place.
Overall, the Athlon 64 FX-51 has shown some big muscle and pretty much sweeps by storm most of the benchmark suite used here. Keep in mind that all applications were running in standard Windows XP (32-bit version), that is, everything was running in legacy mode.
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