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| AMD Athlon XP2800+ The Truce of the AntiMatter | |
| (Review by MS, October 1, 2002) |
Content Creation Winstone 2002
Content Creation Winstone 2002 follows closely in the footsteps of Winstone 2001 and, unlike Content Creation Winstone 2001, it does not appear to be biased towards AMD processors, au contraire.... However, it does not seem to benefit as much from high IDE transfers as much as Business Winstone 2001 either.
CCWS2002 used to be a homerun for the P4, now, the Athlon XP2800 offers some serious paroli, regardless of the platform and HDD used. We would have liked to try the Barracuda SATA V on the nForce board but it would not correctly recognize it or if it did, crashed after a short time. Bottom line is that in content creation, memory bandwidth can make up for lack of IDE transfers. In view of these numbers, the fact that the P4 takes home the two top positions is almost unimportant. (V: VIA KT400 chipset, N: nForce2 chipset)
Gaming Benchmarks
Quake3 Arena
512 x 384 x 16 "Fastest"
The historical nemesis of AMD Processors has been Quake (II, 3) and things have not changed very much or maybe, they did now?
Quake3Arena Demo_four fps at the "Fastest" setting. The P4 overclocked to 3.15 GHz takes the lead, followed by (and that is quite a surprise) the XP2800 overclocked to 13.5 x 172 (2325) MHz (this was the highest frequency running stable on the A7N8X). Place 3 is taken by the P4 running at stock speed, closely followed by the XP2800 at default settings. Increasing the memory bus speed to 200 MHz (N-200) results in a dramatic performance loss and the VIA KT400-based A7V8X has to contend with the last place here.
640 x 480 x 16 "Normal"
Quake3Arena Demo_four fps "Normal". Nothing changes: The P4 overclocked to 3.15 GHz takes the lead, followed by (and that is no longer a surprise) the XP2800 overclocked to 13.5 x 172 (2325) MHz. The rest of the ranking does not change and neither does the performance hit caused by asyncronous memory operation go away.
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