AMD's Athlon XP 3000+: Barton cuts it close
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 10, 2003 2:24 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Gaming Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003 (Flyby)
With this review we continue to use the final retail version of Unreal Tournament 2003 as a benchmark tool. The benchmark works similarly to the demo, except there are higher detail settings that can be chosen. As we've mentioned before, in order to make sure that all numbers are comparable you need to be sure to do the following:
By default the game will detect your video card and assign its internal defaults based on the capabilities of your video card to optimize the game for performance. In order to fairly compare different video cards you have to tell the engine to always use the same set of defaults which is accomplished by editing the .bat files in the X:\UT2003\Benchmark\ directory.
Add the following parameters to the statements in every one of the .bat files located in that directory:
-ini=..\\Benchmark\\Stuff\\MaxDetail.ini -userini=..\\Benchmark\\Stuff\\MaxDetailUser.ini
For example, in botmatch-antalus.bat will look like this after the additions:
..\System\ut2003 dm-antalus?spectatoronly=true?numbots=12?quickstart=true -benchmark -seconds=77 -exec=..\Benchmark\Stuff\botmatchexec.txt -ini=..\\Benchmark\\Stuff\\MaxDetail.ini -userini=..\\Benchmark\\Stuff\\MaxDetailUser.ini -nosound
Remember to do this to all of the .bat files in that directory before running Benchmark.exe.
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214.9
205.5
200.8
The performance here is very competitive between the Athlon XP and the Pentium 4, with the new 3000+ just barely edging out the 3.06GHz Pentium 4.
This type of a CPU scaling graph is very common it seems, with the higher speed Athlon XPs and Pentium 4s closing in on each other quite quickly in an effort to keep the race very close.
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Anonymous User - Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - link
Curious? Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton is running with Intel's P4 2.5 and above and keep up? Intresting