AMD's Athlon XP 2000+ vs Intel's 0.13-micron Northwood

3D Animation Performance

To further explore 3D rendering performance we used the same two animations that the talented folks over at Ace's Hardware used in their last workstation roundup for this test. Unlike the first test, these frames were rendered at 320 x 240.

3D Animation Performance 3D Studio MAX 4.2.6 Waterfall.max (Time in Seconds to Render Frames 20 to 29 - Lower is better) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz (Northwood) AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2AGHz (Northwood) Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz 141 148 148 153 160 164 172 181 189 199 | 0 | 40 | 80 | 119 | 159 | 199 | 239

The performance standings remain relatively unchanged throughout this animation, with the 512KB L2 cache providing for a 5% boost in performance to the Pentium 4. The 2.2GHz part is on the heels of the XP 2000+ in this test...

3D Animation Performance 3D Studio MAX 4.2.6 Ape.max (Time in Seconds to Render Frames 20 to 25 - Lower is better) Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz (Northwood) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2AGHz (Northwood) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz 256 257 266 276 277 290 317 327 347 363 | 0 | 73 | 145 | 218 | 290 | 363 | 436

...and on its toes in this one. Without the Northwood core there would not be a single Pentium 4 that would be faster than an Athlon XP 1700+ in this test.