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(Review by MS May 9, 2005) |
| AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (Venice) |
Gaming Performance
Most games are single threaded or take poor advantage of SMP or HyperThreading. One notable exception has been Quake3 that allowed SMP mode, however, other than trying to accomplish 4-digit frame rates, the relevance of running Quake3 in SMP mode appears of esoteric value only. On the other hand, a valid question is certainly how the X2 4800 scales in some of the common games. We took three games as reference, namely Comanche4 as representative of some older games, DOOM3 and FarCry for current state of the art games. In the case of Comanche4 and DOOM3 we used the built-in demos, for FarCry, we used a custom recorded demo within the Steam level with a bunch of mercenary bots for maximum CPU load.
Comanche4
FarCry
Both Comanche4 and Farcry show a small increase in performance with the 4800+ but the gains are too small to warrant any upgrade towards dual core at this point. We'll leave out the DOOM3 scores here since we'll show them within the power consumption section to follow.
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