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AMD's
Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz)
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Author : Martyn
Date : 13th March '02
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3DVelocity
wish to thank AMD and particularly
Theresa Zimmer for providing this CPU for review.
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AMD
Athlon XP 2100+ |
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AMD |
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AMD |
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TBC |
Part Five: Video 2000
Video 2000 is an excellent MPEG benchmark from Mad
Onion.com It pushes your CPU and Graphics card's MPEG
decode performance. Using Win DVD V.3.0 as the MPEG decoder,
both CPU's underwent the benchmark...
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Video 2000
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Features
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Performance
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Quality
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Overall
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AMD
Athlon XP 1900+
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689
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1081
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1012
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2782
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AMD Athlon XP 2100+
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689
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1071
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1012
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2772
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In truth, hardly a noticeable difference here.
All the XP chips seem to help your graphics card playback DVD's
exceptionally well so the similar scores on show here were not
a total surprise. The CPU's were boosted by the hardware features
of ATI's Radeon 8500.
Part Six: Open GL Performance
The XP chips have proved in the past what a great
choice they are for gamers, I was certainly hoping the frequency
increase alone would push those vital FPS higher and higher.
We start with Open GL and the still incredibly popular Quake
3.
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Quake3 Time
Demo 1 (Highest Quality 32Bit)
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640 x 480
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800 x 600
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1024 x 768
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1280 x 1024
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1600 x 1200
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AMD
Athlon XP 1900+
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208.4
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203.1
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184.1
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135.0
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95.4
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AMD Athlon XP 2100+
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216.3
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214.2
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193.3
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144.7
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101.6
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(Results expressed in frames per/s)
The speed increases pushes the frames per second
even higher in Quake 3. As expected the difference in 640 x
480 shows the difference between the CPU's. Rather more unexpectedly,
the increase was still significant at 1600 x 1200. This is rather
more a tribute to the Radeon though than the CPU...
Next we move on to Dronez, a benchmark with just
about every Open GL trick up it's sleeve!
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Dronez 32bit
'Geforce 3 High Quality'
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640 x 480
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1600 x 1200
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AMD
Athlon XP 1900+
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181.53
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56.72
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AMD Athlon XP 2100+
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190.28
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60.31
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(Results expressed in frames per/s)
The faster CPU pushes nearly nine frames ahead
at 640 x 480, a nice result in a taxing benchmark. The differences
narrow at 1600 x 1200 but the 2100+ is still firmly ahead.
We now try the impressive Return To Castle Wolfenstein
and the multiplayer 'Check Point' demo. A taxing yet highly
relevant benchmark being that it's based upon one of the most
popular games of late...
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RTCW 32bit
Checkpoint Time Demo
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640 x 480
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800 x 600
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1024 x 768
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1280 x 1024
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1600 x 1200
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AMD
Athlon XP 1900+
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109.4
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108.8
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108.6
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100.9
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81.1
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AMD Athlon XP 2100+
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115.0
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114.9
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113.5
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103.8
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82.5
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(Results expressed in frames per/s)
While the benchmark was handled easily at all
resolutions, this is one game where the speed increase mattered
slightly less. The difference at 640 x 480 was still six frames
per second though, which, to a hardened gamer, is nothing to
ignore! Further increases were observed throughout the remaining
resolutions but what increase there was narrowed, as was expected,
toward 1600 x 1200.
The Athlon XP 2100+ performed very well indeed,
showing us the expected increases in Open GL, we now move to
D3D to see if we can glean the same performance gains out of
some incredibly popular benchmarks...
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