Performance in Futuremark 3DMark 2001 SE, 3DMark03 and 3DMark05

As we see, the situation turned out somewhat different in gaming apps, where 3DMark 2001 actually belongs, too. Large L3 cache of the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processors allows them to show better results than the top Prescott based solutions do. However, even faster system bus and the clock frequency of Pentium 4 XE 3.46GHz do not allow this CPU to outrun the top Athlon 64 CPU models.

The similar situation can be observed in 3DMark03 test set.

In the new 3DMark05 test package Intel CPUs look somewhat better: the total score of all LGA775 platforms tested today appears higher than that of the AMD platforms due to faster PCI Express x16 graphics interface. However, the processor test from this package still awards AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 with the winner’s laurels, while the new Pentium 4 XE 3.46GHz again appears slower than Pentium 4 560 working at 3.6Ghz and supporting 800MHz bus.