AMD Athlon XP 2000+, A Virtual Milestone!

Author : Wayne Date : 7th January 2002

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

 

 

Benchmark Results :

AMD NBench :

NBench is an AMD created (yes, that possibly means biased) benchmark that uses some of the crappiest 3D motion I've seen for years. Fortunately, while it's pretending to be an ancient DirectX 5 benchmarks it's also giving your CPU a good workout so that's all the justification I need to use it.

 

 

A 6.5% increase is pretty good going considering this benchmark still aims a certain number of functions at the graphics card.

Final Reality :

Rather than pretending to be an ancient DirectX 5 benchmarks, this one actually IS an ancient DirectX 5 benchmark! Why use it? because it gives a fair idea whether or not your older games titles are going to benefit from this extra power, and also because it uses only AGP and MMX optimisations it leaves more of the geometry calculations to the CPU.

 

This time we see an improvement of over 10%, although I've yet to find out exactly how this final score is arrived at so take it as an indication rather than gospel.

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