Intel Introduces 533MHz FSB CPUs - Pentium 4 2.53GHz

Jedi Knight 2 is an extremely unique incarnation of the Quake III engine and it also happens to make a terrific CPU benchmark as the game is rarely ever GPU bound with today's video cards.

3D Gaming Performance Jedi Knight 2 - High Quality - 1024x768x32 Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4B 2.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0A GHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz 116.6 113.4 109.7 104.3 104.3 101.7 97.3 96.3 92.5 88.6 83.0 77.2 | 0 | 23 | 47 | 70 | 93 | 117 | 140

The performance standings under Jedi Knight 2 are pretty similar to what we saw under UPT2002, however now the gaps between the individual CPUs widens considerably. For example, the fastest Pentium 4 (2.53GHz) ends up being 11.7% faster than the fastest Athlon XP (2100+) mostly because the benchmark isn't as GPU limited as UPT2002.

Finally we have Comanche 4, another fairly new game (DX8 compliant) with a very heavy CPU dependency as we've seen in recent video card roundups.

3D Gaming Performance Comanche 4 - High Quality - 1024x768x32 Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4B 2.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0A GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz 51.2 49.8 48.9 46.0 42.4 42.2 41.3 38.9 36.4 34.9 32.9 29.7 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 31 | 41 | 51 | 61

Under Comanche 4 we see that the larger L2 cache offered by the Northwood core is strongly favored, giving the Pentium 4 a solid lead here. If you look at the older Willamette CPUs, even the Athlon XP 1600+ can trounce the fastest 2GHz 0.18-micron part.