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AMD's Athlon-64 Benchmarked With UT2003

Posted by chrisd on from the portable-64-bit-goodness dept.

Sander Sassen writes "Wondering about the performance of AMD's Athlon-64? Want to how well it runs in 64-bit mode? Hardware Analysis managed to run a few benchmarks on a AMD Athlon-64 demo system using the 64-bit version of Epic' Unreal Tournament 2003. There's also an update with the latest about Athlon-64, Opteron and mobile Athlon-64 including streaming video and pictures of a quad Opteron server."

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  1. nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    i would have to say that this article is about as worthless as the bill gates quotations earlier, int terms of actual usefullness and truthfullness. since everything is prerelease and the details are fairly sketchy, im gonna wait for solid numbers before i decide once and for all who i will be loyal to in the proccesor world.

  2. thoughs.. by itzdandy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    how well are the drivers for the gefore card working? are they playing nice with that k8t400? are the nvidia drivers 64bit or are they being run in "32-bit" mode? how well is OpenGL playing with the 64-bit OS, 64-bit Chip combo and again, how well are the nvidia drivers playing? is the OS running the AGP in AGP mode or is it PCI mode?

    i bet i could easily get a P4 2.7 with this graphics card to product similar numbers, or even worse in linux with some effort to use least optimized drivers and setting the graphics card to PCI.

    in fact, my P4 2.4x133@2.7x150 with a GF Ti 4600 doesn't post much better numbers, 55fps by stat fps. and thats on a 32bit "system" with fairly mature drivers and everything work "correctly/fullspeed"

    im not an AMD zealot, but i wont make me decision based on a game that is notoriously bad at opengl and on a system that is running all beta software/drivers.

  3. Remember Doom III? by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's not get over-excited... This is of course interresting information, but it's information of a premature chip on a premature platform.

    I doubt that any proper conclusions can be drawn from this, apart from what is already known: The Athlon 64 isn't ready yet. If was the release date wouldn't be set for September.

    Much like with Doom III, there is always a cool-factor, but the actual facts at hand are very scarse. One thing is probably for sure though... The Hammer core can't compete with the Barton core on the desktop at this point. Otherwise we'd have the Athlon 64 waiting to be released much sooner.

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    .: Max Romantschuk :: http://max.romantschuk.fi/
  4. A question... by Yuioup · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I curious... how do the extra bits per clock cycle supposed to increase performance? I mean the number of instructions per second don't increase...

    Yuioup

    1. Re:A question... by stevelinton · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Not a great deal is the quick answer.

      Extra bits can improve data movement and a variety of integer operations like xoring one area of memory with another, but (a) this is probably mainly done on the video card and (b) it is usually limited by memory bandwidth, not CPU.

      The main point of 64 it CPUs is to address more than 4GB of RAM per process. A few applications will also benefit from 64 bit integer arithmetic.

      However, this is a new chip architecture, so how well it performs is interesting independently of the word length

  5. Where are the promised benchmarks by okigan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article said that there will be benchmarks. And there are none. A screen shot of a game does not qualify. I want to see the whole spec or at least the basic ones. And after that I can look at the game snapshot.

    Moderator seriously why this posted with such a misleading title?

  6. This article was incredibly empty... by gasgesgos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There was nothing to this artice. Here is what I learned from reading this article: 1)there's a 64-bit linux port of UT 2003 2)amd likes secrecy 3)the people who were showing off the laptop like Harry Potter wow. now wasn't that informative?

  7. Worthless by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Some kind of database benchmark." Thanks for that insightful analysis of the 4-way, and pimping your own site on Slashdot. Tasteless!