Intel's Pentium 4 2.80GHz - Moving to the Head of the Class

Gaming Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003

We introduced the latest Unreal Tournament 2003 benchmark in our GPU Shootout article a few weeks back and we're continuing to use it as an example of a next-generation game test.

We benchmarked only under one level - DM-Asbestos (a very CPU bound benchmark) as our other UT2003 benchmark did not vary with CPU speed on any of the 2GHz+ CPUs (DM-Antalus is GPU limited in most situations unless you have a Radeon 9700 Pro at your disposal).

Gaming Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003 DM-Asbestos - Frames per Second (higher is better)

Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.4BGHz Intel Pentium 4 2.60GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.13GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz (400MHz) 182.2 179.5 174.4 174.1 173.6 173.0 171.1 170.5 170.1 168.8 163.6 163.5 163.1 162.4 160.9 158.3 155.3 155.3 | 0 | 36 | 73 | 109 | 146 | 182 | 219

3D games are known bandwidth hogs and thus we can see that the new 400MHz parts have a difficult time keeping up with their 533MHz counterparts. As expected, the new 2.80GHz Pentium 4 takes the crown under Unreal Tournament 2003.