AMD ATHLON64 3400 REVIEW

"AMD Athlon64 3400 review testing the powerful 2.4Ghz Newcastle Socket 754 processor from AMD. Other hardware used was the AMD Sempron 3100, AMD Athlon XP 3200 and the GIGABYTE K8NS PRO motherboard."

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR	AMD ATHLON64 3400
	AMD SEMPRON 3100
	AMD ATHLON XP 3200
MOTHERBOARD	GIGABYTE K8NS PRO
	ASROCK K7S8XE+
VIDEO CARD	MSI GEFORCE 6600 GT
NVIDIA DRIVER	FORCEWARE v77.77
MEMORY	2 x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
DIRECTX VERSION	v9.0c

3DMARK BENCHMARKS

3DMARK 2001 SE

	18104
	15731
	13809

3DMARK 2003

	7979
	7610
	7247

3DMARK 2005

	3345
	3281
	2775

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 3200

COMMENT - "Using 3dmark 2001 SE the Athlon64 3400 puts in a good performance and finishes 2373 points ahead of the Sempron 3100 which is a 14% increase. Even though 3dmark 2003 is more of a video card benchmark the Athlon64 3400 is still able to outperform the Sempron 3100 by 369 points which is a 5% increase. Now we are testing with 3dmark 2005 and this makes even less use of the processor so the Athlon64 3400 can only deliver a 64 point increase over the Sempron 3100 which is only a 2% increase."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
3DMARK 2001 SE
1024x768 Resolution
32Bit color
D3D Hardware T&L
Antialiasing Disabled
Double Frame Buffer
Compressed Texture Format
24Bit Z-Buffer Depth

3DMARK 2003
1024x768 Resolution
No Pixel Processing
Optimal Texture Filtering
4x Max Anisotropy
Optimal Vertex Shaders
No Repeat Tests
No Fixed Framerate

3DMARK 2005
1024x768 Resolution
No Anti-Aliasing
Optimal Filtering
HLSL VS Target 2_0
HLSL PS Target 2_0
No Fixed Framerate

GEFORCE 6600 GT SPECIFIC
HLSL VS Target 3_0
HLSL PS Target 3_0

3DMARK 2005 CPU TEST

3DMARK 2005 CPU SCORE

	4341
	3663
	3041

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 3200

COMMENT - "We are using the cpu test within 3dmark 2005 which doesn't use any dx9 effects so puts little stress on the video card. The Athlon64 3400 finishes 16% faster than the Sempron 3100 and 29% faster than the Athlon XP 3200."

3DMARK 2005
1024x768 Resolution
No Anti-Aliasing
Optimal Filtering
HLSL VS Target 2_0
HLSL PS Target 2_0
No Fixed Framerate

GEFORCE 6600 GT SPECIFIC
HLSL VS Target 3_0
HLSL PS Target 3_0

CPU BENCH 2003

OVERALL

	8549
	6718
	6590

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 3200

COMMENT - "Cpu Bench 2003 shows what the Athlon64 3400 can really with a 22% performance increase over the Sempron 3100."

KRIBI BENCH

OFFICE

	22.54
	18.40
	18.85

JET SHADOW

	21.05
	16.83
	19.39

SPONGE

	11.97
	9.58
	10.37

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 3200

COMMENT - "For the first time the Sempron 3100 is outperformed by the Athlon XP 3200, however the Athlon64 outperforms the Athlon XP 3200 by between 10% to 19%."

META BENCH

OVERALL

	4019
	3030
	3337

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 3200

COMMENT - "This is another victory for the XP 3200 over the Sempron 3100, once again the power of the Athlon64 3400 is clear and it is 17% ahead of the XP 3200."

REALSTORM 2004

OVERALL

	5555
	4350
	3927

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 3200

COMMENT - "Second place swings back to the Sempron 3100's and it outperforms the Athlon XP 3200, the Athlon64 3400 finishes 22% faster than the Sempron 3100."

SCIENCE MARK 2

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS (LOWER IS BETTER)

	71
	96
	75

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 3200

COMMENT - "The Sempron 3100 and Athlon XP 3200 both perform within 6% of each other but the Athlon64 is a clear 22% faster."

SISOFTWARE SANDRA 2005

PROCESSOR - ALU DHRYSTONE

	10954
	8217
	9010

PROCESSOR - FPU WHETSTONE

	3921
	2939
	3550

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 3200

COMMENT - "The Athlon64 3400 is 18% faster than the Athlon XP 3200 in the Dhrystone test and using the Whetstone test the Athlon64 3400 is 10% faster."

SISOFTWARE SANDRA 2005

MULTI-MEDIA - INTEGER

	22772
	17064
	20665

MULTI-MEDIA - FLOATING POINT

	24587
	18425
	22065

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 3200

COMMENT - "The clock speed of the Sempron 3100 which is 600Mhz slower than the Athlon64 3400 and 400Mhz slower than the Athlon XP 3200 really shows with this test. It is the only processor which can't reach 20,000 points unlike the other two processors. The Athlon64 3400 is approx 10% faster than the Athlon XP 3200 and a huge 26% faster than the Sempron 3100."

SISOFTWARE SANDRA 2005

MEMORY BANDWIDTH - INTEGER

	3008
	3021
	2731

MEMORY BANDWIDTH - FLOATING POINT

	3007
	3022
	2552

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 ATHLON XP 3200

COMMENT - "In this SiSoftware Sandra 2005 memory bandwidth benchmark we are testing the integrated memory controller on the Athlon64 and Sempron processors. The Athlon XP 3200 doesn't have an integrated memory controller which is why it's performance is between 10% to 15% slower than the Athlon64 3400 and Sempron 3100. There is only a very small difference between the Athlon64 3400 and Sempron 3100 processors."

SUPER PI

512K (LOWER IS BETTER)

	17
	22

1MB (LOWER IS BETTER)

	39
	49

4MB (LOWER IS BETTER)

	195
	247

ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100

COMMENT - "In this SuperPI test the Athlon64 3400 delivers a performance increase of approx 22% over the Sempron 3100."