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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. 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.

  2. 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/
  3. 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?