AMD Athlon XP 2600/2400+ - Introducing Thoroughbred Revision B

Gaming Performance (continued)

Jedi Knight 2 is another great gaming benchmark for CPUs as it is based on the popular Quake III engine but is demanding enough that it doesn't break the 300fps barrier at every chance it gets.

We used the 1.03 patch which still retained the game's built in demo (JK2FFA) and ran the test at high detail settings with anisotropic filtering disabled.

Gaming Performance - Jedi Knight 2 1.03 JK2FFA - Frames per Second (higher is better) Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.4BGHz AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.13GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz (400MHz) 149.4 144.9 144.6 140.6 140.4 135.5 131.9 131.8 129.0 129.0 121.3 | 0 | 30 | 60 | 90 | 120 | 149 | 179

The Pentium 4 2.53GHz is just over 3% faster than the Athlon XP 2600+, a negligble amount; the same goes for the Pentium 4 2.4B and the Athlon XP 2400+.

Gaming Performance - Serious Sam 2 Little Trouble - Frames per Second (higher is better) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.13GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.4BGHz Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz (400MHz) 113.9 113.8 112.3 112.1 111.9 111.7 111.3 110.3 108.7 106.7 103.4 | 0 | 23 | 46 | 68 | 91 | 114 | 137

The Athlon XP has always done very well in Serious Sam, but the performance spread above the Pentium 4 2.26GHz isn't great enough to start nitpicking; these CPUs mostly perform the same here.

Gaming Performance - Comanche 4 Benchmark - Frames per Second (higher is better) Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.4BGHz AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.13GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz (400MHz) 51.7 50.0 48.3 48.2 47.5 46.4 44.6 43.6 42.6 41.4 41.4 | 0 | 10 | 21 | 31 | 41 | 52 | 62

Things return to normal under Comanche 4, with the Pentium 4 2.53GHz weighing in around 7% faster than the Athlon XP 2600+. The Pentium 4 2.4B is only around 4% faster than the Athlon XP 2400+.