System Setup and Benchmarks

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In order to properly compare the power of the new Athlon XP 3000+ to its competitors, I brought in an Intel test bed to the setups. The processor is an Intel 3.06 GHz P4 with Hyper Threading technology and the motherboard is a Soyo i845PE motherboard donated by Soyo for this article. I used the same exact memory for the P4 setup and used the same benchmarks and video drivers. I also tested the P4 setup in both HT and non-HT modes just for a nice overall look at the desktop picture. I don’t intend this to be a review of the Intel P4 3.06 GHz processor, but you can take what you will from its numbers.

Keep in mind that the Athlon processors we tested here (3000+, 2700+ and 2400+) are running at respective frequencies of 2.16 GHz, 2.16 GHz and 2.0 GHz. That means the 3000+ and the 2700+ comparisons shows only what the 512 K cache does for the Athlon line.

The rest of the setup is the same, down to the memory, video cards and setup. Here is the complete setup:

AMD Test System Setup
CPU 1 x 2.17 GHz AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Processor (Barton)
1 x 2.17 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2700+ Processor
1 x 1.80 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+ Processor
Motherboard Asus A7N8X nForce2 Motherboard
Memory 2 x 256MB Corsair Micro XMS3500 DDR DRAM
Hard Drive 80 GB 7200 RPM IBM EIDE
Video Card ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Video Drivers 61.66
Operating System Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1

Intel Test System Setup
CPU 1 x 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 Processor with Hyper Threading
Motherboard Soyo i845PE Lite
Memory 2 x 256MB Corsair Micro XMS3500 DDR DRAM
Hard Drive 80 GB 7200 RPM IBM EIDE
Video Card ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Video Drivers 61.66
Operating System Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1

Tests:

Quake III: Arena
Unreal Tournament 2003
3DMark 2001: SE
SiSoft Sandra Memory Bench
SiSoft Sandra CPU Bench
SiSoft Sandra Multimedia Bench
PC Mark 2002
Content Creation Winstone 2001
Content Creation Winstone 2002
Business Winstone 2001
SPECviewperf 7
Cachemem
ScienceMark

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