Performance in Gaming Applications

We paid special attention to testing AMD Athlon 64 3200+ in gaming applications. The biggest part of all AMD CPU fans is the computer enthusiasts, and gamers definitely belong here, too.

In a pretty old but still very popular test set, such as 3DMark 2001 SE, Athlon 64 3200+ shows very good results outperforming even Pentium 4 3.2GHz. However, the situation changes drastically in 3DMasrk03, where Pentium 4 processors beat the Athlon family. Nevertheless, according to the CPU score index, Athlon 64 3200+ outperforms Pentium 4 3.2GHz, probably due to larger L2 cache in the first place.

The picture we see in Aquamark3 is very similar to what we have just seen in 3DMark03. Intel Pentium 4 processors are pretty strong here. Also note that just like in 3DMark03, Athlon 64 3200+ performs nearly as fast in Aquamark3 as Opteron 146. since both these processors work at the same clock frequencies, it means that low latency of Athlon 64 memory subsystem is capable of making up for the lower bandwidth.