AMD's Athlon XP 3000+: Barton cuts it close

Gaming Performance - Quake III Arena

An extremely dated benchmark, Quake III Arena has become much more of a CPU and platform test than anything because of the fact that current generation graphics cards are no where near stressed by it. We used our old 1.29f build of the game with the classic demo "four" at High Quality defaults, with everything maxed out at 1024x768.

Gaming Performance Quke III Arena - 1024x768x32 High Quality Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz HT Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (2.167GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.083GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.8AGHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6AGHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz 328.7 327.4 315.6 306.9 305.9 301 297.1 296.3 290.1 278.1 267.9 262.4 261.8 249.8 249.4 245.2 238.2 235.3 233.5 227.2 222.3 220.6 215.9 212.7 209.9 208 203.5 200.7 192.5 185.5 180.6 | 0 | 66 | 131 | 197 | 263 | 329 | 394

A 7% advantage goes to the 3.06GHz Pentium 4 here, holding the Athlon XP 3000+ back.

If you notice, the Pentium 4 overtakes the Athlon XP at just past the 2400 mark; what happens at this point is the introduction of the 533MHz FSB for the Pentium 4, indicating that the performance here was FSB/memory bus limited for the Pentium 4.