AMD's Athlon XP 1900+ (1.6GHz): Still #1

3D Rendering & Animation Performance

While we normally publish the entire results of the SPECviewperf 6.1.2 run, for this review we picked the three most CPU dependent viewset tests and presented you with those. The tests absent from this review are AWadvs, MedMCAD and ProCDRS which were largely video card bound to the point where there was no more than a 1% span of performance figures between all of the CPUs in this review

3D Rendering & Animation Performance SPECviewperf 6.1.2 - DRV-07 AMD Athlon XP 1.60GHz (1900+) AMD Athlon XP 1.53GHz (1800+) AMD Athlon XP 1.47GHz (1700+) AMD Athlon XP 1.40GHz (1600+) AMD Athlon XP 1.33GHz (1500+) AMD Athlon-C 1.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz 24.03 23.63 23.38 23.02 22.66 22.4 21.26 20.93 20.72 20.38 20.03 19.74 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 19 | 24 | 29

No change here, the Pentium 4 2.0 is only competitive with the lower clocked Athlon/Athlon XP processors.

3D Rendering & Animation Performance SPECviewperf 6.1.2 - DX-06 Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz AMD Athlon XP 1.60GHz (1900+) AMD Athlon XP 1.53GHz (1800+) AMD Athlon XP 1.47GHz (1700+) AMD Athlon XP 1.40GHz (1600+) AMD Athlon XP 1.33GHz (1500+) Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz AMD Athlon-C 1.4GHz 38.8 38.35 38.33 38.3 38.23 38.05 37.94 37.18 36.24 35.19 34 28.51 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 23 | 31 | 39 | 47

With a 0.45 fps advantage over the Athlon XP 1900+ we have stumbled upon one of two tests that isn't topped by the newcomer Athlon XP. If this is the first then the next one must be...

3D Rendering & Animation Performance SPECviewperf 6.1.2 - Light-04 Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz AMD Athlon XP 1.60GHz (1900+) Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz AMD Athlon XP 1.53GHz (1800+) AMD Athlon XP 1.47GHz (1700+) Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz AMD Athlon XP 1.40GHz (1600+) AMD Athlon-C 1.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz AMD Athlon XP 1.33GHz (1500+) 10.32 10.16 10.02 9.958 9.8 9.755 9.525 9.489 9.331 9.219 9.158 9.145 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12

...you guessed it: Light-04. This benchmark is primarily dominated by the Pentium 4 and we can attribute this to either strong AGP performance of the i850 platform (the lightscape benchmark is highly dependent upon transferring triangle data over the AGP bus to the graphics card) or solid CPU performance unleashed by NVIDIA's well written Detonator drivers. Unfortunately it's the only time where we really see the Pentium 4 pull ahead of AMD's little engine that could; without Northwood to restore some balance to the competition, AMD is able to walk away a winner yet again.