Processors Toolkit

Athlon XP/2200+: how we tested

Kai Schmerer ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 18 Jun 2002

The performance of the new processors was evaluated using the following benchmarks:

Benchmark tests used
Benchmark type	Benchmark name
Application-based tests	ZD Business Winstone 2001, ZD Content Creation Winstone 2002
Encoding tests	LSX MPEG Encoder 3.5, XMpeg 4.5 (MPEG); Musicmatch Jukebox 7.0 (MP3)
Rendering tests	Bryce 5.01, 3D Studio Max 4.26, Cinebench, Lightwave 7b
Internet tests	ZD i-Bench 3.0
Workstation tests	SPEC Viewperf 7.0
Gaming tests	3DMark 2001 SE, Aquanox, Comanche 4 (DirectX 8); Quake, Vulpine GLmark 1.1p (OpenGL)

The benchmarks were run on the following equipment:

Test platforms
Component	Athlon XP/DDR333	Pentium 4/DDR266	Pentium 4/PC800 and PC1066

Motherboard	Gigabyte 7VRXP	Intel 845GBC	Asus P4T533-C
Chipset	VIA KT333	Intel 845G	Intel 850E
Memory (MB)	256	256	256

The rest of the equipment was the same for all systems. A Promise Fastrak 100 drove two IBM DTLA307030 hard drives as Raid-0. The graphics card used was the Asus V8200 T5 with nVidia’s GeForce 3 Ti 500 chipset and Detonator drivers 22.80. All tests were carried out under Windows XP Professional at a resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels and 32-bit colour depth.

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