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AMD
Athlon XP 2000+, A Virtual Milestone!
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Author : Wayne
Date : 7th January 2002
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3DVelocity would like to
thank AMD and
especially Theresa Zimmer for their help and courtesy in providing
this processor for review.
Benchmark Results :
3DMark 2001 :
What better place to start the benchmark results
than with the evergreen 3DMark2001. If you were expecting to
see the kind of gains here that we're likely to see elsewhere,
then let me remind you that this is a benchmark aimed at testing
the performance of your graphics card and that the card will
limit the amount of improvements you'll see, as indeed it should.
If I saw massive gains here I'd be questioning just what the
benchmark was really testing, my GPU or my CPU. That said, I'm
not going to grumble at an extra 146 3DMarks!
GL Excess :
If you don't by now know how much faith I have
in this benchmark, then you're clearly not a regular and it's
about time you were, so scoot off and see me raving about it
in past reviews (not that we need the hits you understand :)
This is a sweet looking OpenGL benchie that kicks out very consistent
results, just what I like.
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Legend
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FILL RATE
Tests
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POLYGON
COUNT Tests
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VRAM Tests
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CPU/FPU
Tests
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Creative
Ti500 - GeForce3/AGP/3DNOW! Athlon XP 1800+
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6024
- XSMARKS
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Scene 12
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1024x768
32bpp
06/01/2002
13:36
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MIN
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111
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99
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154
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66
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110
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121
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82
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98
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92
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54
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123
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124
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AVG
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161
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129
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213
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76
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175
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156
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107
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113
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121
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83
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157
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118
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MAX
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200
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167
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252
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100
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389
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190
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127
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127
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143
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156
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209
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166
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| SUMMARIES |
5163
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7176
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3398
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5573
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Creative
Ti500 - GeForce3/AGP/3DNOW! Athlon XP 2000+
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6024
- XSMARKS
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Scene 5
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Scene 9
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Scene 10
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Scene 11
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Scene 12
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1024x768
32bpp
06/01/2002
14:55
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MIN
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121
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108
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156
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66
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110
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124
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82
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99
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99
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53
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124
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125
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AVG
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164
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140
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216
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77
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179
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157
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108
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114
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120
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85
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158
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120
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MAX
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201
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167
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252
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100
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401
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191
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142
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126
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144
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143
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209
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167
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| SUMMARIES |
5294
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7185
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3419
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5968
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Of course the result we should be most interested
in is the dusky pink (adjust your monitors now) CPU/FPU numbers,
although we see a gain of some degree right across the board.
The CPU/FPU result shows an increase of around 7% which is a
pretty good return for the frequency hike.
For those of you who dislike numbers here's a
graph of the same thing.
Page 7 - Benchmarks
