Athlon64 3000+: 64-bit at Half the Price
by Wesley Fink on December 22, 2003 8:15 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Gaming and Media Encoding Performance
Based on Gaming Performance, the 3000+ rating of the new 512k Cache Athlon64 is very conservative. The 3200+ 1Mb cache version is faster in our standard game benchmarks, but by a very small margin. Compare the game benchmarks for the 3000+ to the Pentium 4 3.2 and 3.0 Processors. The 3000+ holds its own against the best from Intel. Intel does lead the Mpeg Encoding benchmark in out tests. While the FX is competitive in this vintage encoding benchmark, the single-channel A64 solutions do not do nearly as well as dual-channel designs in this benchmark.
The FX51 is clearly the best performing processor in gaming, but results should be kept in perspective. At about 1/4 the price of the FX, half the price of the 3200+, and $150 less than the 3.2 P4, the 3000+ is providing outstanding gaming performance. For those who have wanted an Athlon64 or top P4 CPU, but just couldn’t handle the cost, the A64 3000+ will be like a breath of fresh air.
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morcegovermelho - Monday, December 22, 2003 - link
page 4 - Science Mark 2; page 5 - Aquamark; page 7 - Winstone 2004; Where are the 3.0Ghz P4 results?Why isn't the P4 2.8C included? It's in the same price range.
lifeguard1999 - Monday, December 22, 2003 - link
Interesting. The charts DO show up in both IE and Firebird when I click through the pages one-by-one, but not when I click the "Print this article" link (which is how I read the articles). Go figure. Thanks for the help Curt.Curt Oien - Monday, December 22, 2003 - link
I see charts with IElifeguard1999 - Monday, December 22, 2003 - link
This would be a nice article, but I do not see any charts in either IE or Mozilla Firebird. Is anyone else seeing this problem. or is it just me? Or is it that there are no benchmarking charts?sheh - Wednesday, August 10, 2016 - link
The article is missing the images, as of 8/2016.