Opteron Gaming Benchmarks

bishop writes "Ace's Hardware has published some Unreal Tournament 2003 benchmark results on a 1.8 GHz Opteron 244. The Opteron servers out right now don't have AGP, but this issue has been nullified, literally, through the use of the 'null renderer' option in UT2003 to bypass the display output. At 1.8 GHz, the Opteron manages to outpace all previous Athlon models, though it does still fall behind the 3 GHz Pentium 4 by about 8%." Only 8% slower in performance with a 40% slower clock speed. Not too shabby.

Comments

Nice Stats!

[mungeh]

I can't wait till the Athlon-64's come out! Maybe they'll be able to surpass a P4 3ghz?

Re:Athlon versus P4 performance..

[AvitarX]

I have a therory.

They realized that if they made a design that allowed them to ramp up the clock speed to profane levels, they would have the best overall performance.

That p4 3GHz is faster then the fasted AMD has to offer. Considering that not too lang ago AMD had the fastest offering for quite a while, I would say the stradegy worked.

There is nothing wrong with designing a chip for ultra high clock sppeds then attaining them. The only problem I had with the p4 was that right when it came out it was slower overall then the best pIII's.