EDIT: I've just learned to edit. I wanted to add a poll previously so I foolishly started a new thread. Please post and vote there. Thanks!!!
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Ok people some of you, in fact quite a lot of you may have seen this benchmark before, but I haven't seen anyone comment on that here. On every review website when they review the CPU performance in Doom 3 they run the timedemo, with A64 always on top of equivilant P4. But the physics and maybe the AI engines do not run during the timedemo in Doom 3. Xbitlabs did a review some time ago which turned up very interesting results in real-world CPU power in Doom 3:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/print/doom3-cpu.html
In the initial tests they, like all the other reviews, run the timedemo benchmark which the A64's win. But in real game play runs the P4's actually come out on top. For instance, the P4 3.0 GHz is faster than both A64 3000+ and 3200+. However these Athlons are the older single-channel socket 754 ones. Maybe the newer s939 ones reach parity with the P4, but I don't think the 3% boost from dual-channel the A64 gets will let them cross the P4.
Now tell if you think I am wrong, but I believe this review's results. Interesting stuff eh? :shocked:
Anyone with access to two similar spec P4 and A64 systems care to verify this conclusion with your tests?
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Ok people some of you, in fact quite a lot of you may have seen this benchmark before, but I haven't seen anyone comment on that here. On every review website when they review the CPU performance in Doom 3 they run the timedemo, with A64 always on top of equivilant P4. But the physics and maybe the AI engines do not run during the timedemo in Doom 3. Xbitlabs did a review some time ago which turned up very interesting results in real-world CPU power in Doom 3:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/print/doom3-cpu.html
In the initial tests they, like all the other reviews, run the timedemo benchmark which the A64's win. But in real game play runs the P4's actually come out on top. For instance, the P4 3.0 GHz is faster than both A64 3000+ and 3200+. However these Athlons are the older single-channel socket 754 ones. Maybe the newer s939 ones reach parity with the P4, but I don't think the 3% boost from dual-channel the A64 gets will let them cross the P4.
Now tell if you think I am wrong, but I believe this review's results. Interesting stuff eh? :shocked:
Anyone with access to two similar spec P4 and A64 systems care to verify this conclusion with your tests?