AMD Athlon 1GHz, 950MHz, 900MHz

Advanced Visualizer (AWadvs-03) Viewset

Taken from http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.static/awadvs.htm

Advanced Visualizer from Alias/Wavefront is an integrated workstation-based 3D animation system that offers a comprehensive set of tools for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, image composition, and video output. All operations within Advanced Visualizer are performed in immediate mode with double buffered windows. There are four basic modes of operation within Advanced Visualizer:

 
• 55% material shading (textured, z-buffered, backface-culled, 2 local lights)
• 95% perspective, 80% trilinear mipmapped, modulated (41.8%)
• 95% perspective, 20% nearest, modulated (10.45%)
• 5% ortho, 80% trilinear mipmapped, modulated (2.2%)
• 5% ortho, 20% nearest, modulated (.55%)
• 30% wireframe (no z-buffering, no lighting)
• 95% perspective (28.5%)
• 5% ortho (1.5%)
• 10% smooth shading (z-buffered, backface-culled, 2 local lights)
• 95% perspective (9.5%)
• 5% ortho (.5%)
• 5% flat shading (z-buffered, backface-culled, 2 local lights)
• 95% perspective (4.75%)
• 5% ortho (.25%)

The Awadvs test mainly focuses on the performance of the graphics subsystem meaning that in this case it is stressing the DDR GeForce we used in the setup which is why you don't see a huge difference in performance among the processors. The entire Athlon series, on the KX133 platform, does seem to literally own the top eight spots.

We also see the negative effects of the AMD 750 chipset which takes the performance of the Athlon down to the low 50's in this benchmark. While we have known about this anomaly for quite some time, we have yet to hear from neither AMD nor NVIDIA about the odd performance issues. Courtesy of the new 3.76 drivers for the GeForce, the KX133 platform pulls far ahead of the older AMD 750 platform, even with SuperBypass enabled. Since the KX133 is based on the same AGP core as the VIA 133A, the latter receives a performance boost as well.