The Battlegrounds
For all of our benchmarks we used Doom 3's built in timedemo functionality. To benchmark Doom 3 yourself simply do the following while in Doom 3:
Bring up the console by hitting: CTRL + ALT + ~
Type: timedemo demo1
Then hit return and Doom 3's timedemo will run. The average frame rate for the demo will be reported after the run is complete. We ran all of our tests three times, disregarding the first score and taking the higher of the remaining two scores. We disregarded the first score because the first time the demo runs there is a lot of pausing as the demo gets cached, the remaining two runs are generally within 1% of one another.
| Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | Socket-939 & Socket-754
Athlon 64/64 FX CPUs |
| RAM: | 2 x 512Mb OCZ 3500 Platinum Ltd (2:3:3:7) |
| Hard Drives | Seagate 120GB 7200 RPM (8MB Buffer) |
| Video AGP & IDE Bus Master Drivers | Intel Chipset Driver 6.0.0.1014 NVIDIA nForce Drivers: 4.27 |
| Video Card(s): | NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra ATI Radeon 9800 Pro |
| Video Drivers: | ATI Catalyst 4.7 NVIDIA ForceWare 61.77 |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP1 |
| Motherboards: | Intel 875P NVIDIA nForce3 NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra |
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Thorne - Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - link
SMP Anyone? Doom III should support smp... has anyone found it?Thorne - Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - link
jrphoenix - Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - link
Intel and gaming don't mix. Where is Peteroy when you need him? LOL. My 3800+ is looking better and better each day :)magratton - Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - link
Is there any possibility that you could produce some numbers for the cpu overclockers who placed their bets on the Athlon XP2500M instead of the A64? Great article, thank you!ceefka - Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - link
Oh my, I guess the Pentium EE is indeed the Extra Expensive Emergency Edition.I'm not much of a gamer though. It's a shame I wrecked my car a few weeks ago. I wanted to build a 939 since they also perform so well on sound and video. Have to wait now. Well there's one upside to that, prices will drop a bit, or so I hope.
Say AT, how about soundbenchies, especially Cubase SX, or similar, with a fixed arrangement, sound & midi with VST instruments and then add stuff like plug-in effects until the system throws up. I have read that Dual Opteron systems can handle 100 audio channels with about 80 realtime plug-ins. How far does say the top 20 of these CPU's carry you. I suppose Hyper Threading would help out Intel here. So I'm very curious.
msva123 - Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - link
If only you could download hardware...Sonic587 - Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - link
I find it remarkable how the A64 3000+ manages to get within 2FPS of the 3.4GHz EE. We have a lowly $160 processor almost besting a $1000 EE. Wow.Adul - Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - link
drool :D cant wait to upgrademkruer - Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - link
LOL im still not buying and AMD 64 chip til the end of the year, but its good to know that the 3500+ on socket 939 still beats*ntels best