Are you eXPerienced?

Author : Martyn Date : 9th October 2001

3DVelocity would like to thank AMD and especially Theresa Zimmer for their help and courtesy in providing this processor for review.

 

 

Part Nine: Open GL Performance

In the last section the chip really helped to boost the GPU, can the XP 1800+ make the same difference in Open GL?

(Quake 3 Arena 16bit Colour Depth)

 

(Quake 3 Arena 32bit Colour Depth)

Quake 3 Arena 32bit	640 x 480	800 x 600	1024 x 768	1280 x 1024	1600 x 1200
Athlon XP 1800+	158.1	120.9	87.4	56.6	40.9

(Results expressed in Frames Per Second)

Great rates once more, the higher frequency certainly helped push the Radeon to higher framerates than I had seen in this game before. Strangely though, at the highest resolution the 1.33GHz Athlon actually produced slightly higher framerates. This might be because the card was at its limits anyway and it was only a difference of one or two frames, the difference between two identical tests sometimes. It still amazes me to see great framerates at 1600x1200. This chip will certainly not hold you back if high resolution gaming is important to you.

Part Ten: 3D Performance Conclusions.

Unsurprising results I would suggest. The higher frequency XP performed very, very well indeed. It was never in doubt that this latest generation Athlon wouldn't disappoint gamers. If you need a new CPU for all the current games and your motherboard can support this chip, it would be somewhat foolhardy to look elsewhere.

The XP comes up against the always popular 'Sandra' next; will the chip be able to produce even better results than it's older brothers?

 

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