Athlon XP/2200+: how we tested
| Athlon
XP/2200+ Introduction How we tested Application performance Encoding performance Rendering performance Internet Performance Gaming performance Workstation performance Conclusions |
The performance of the new processors was evaluated using the following benchmarks:
| Benchmark tests used | |
| Benchmark type |
Benchmark name |
| Application-based tests | ZD Business Winstone 2001, ZD Content Creation Winstone 2002 |
| Encoding tests | LSX MPEG Encoder 3.5, XMpeg 4.5 (MPEG); Musicmatch Jukebox 7.0 (MP3) |
| Rendering tests | Bryce 5.01, 3D Studio Max 4.26, Cinebench, Lightwave 7b |
| Internet tests | ZD i-Bench 3.0 |
| Workstation tests | SPEC Viewperf 7.0 |
| Gaming tests | 3DMark 2001 SE, Aquanox, Comanche 4 (DirectX 8); Quake, Vulpine GLmark 1.1p (OpenGL) |
The benchmarks were run on the following equipment:
| Test platforms | |||
| Component |
Athlon XP/DDR333 |
Pentium 4/DDR266 |
Pentium 4/PC800 and PC1066 |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte 7VRXP | Intel 845GBC | Asus P4T533-C |
| Chipset | VIA KT333 | Intel 845G | Intel 850E |
| Memory (MB) | 256 | 256 | 256 |
The rest of the equipment was the same for all systems. A Promise Fastrak 100 drove two IBM DTLA307030 hard drives as Raid-0. The graphics card used was the Asus V8200 T5 with nVidia's GeForce 3 Ti 500 chipset and Detonator drivers 22.80. All tests were carried out under Windows XP Professional at a resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels and 32-bit colour depth.
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