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
TRIBES VENGEANCE
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ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Imperial Arena level
LOW QUALITY
Bump Map Detail Low
Texture Detail Low
Terrain Micro Disabled
Fluid Surface Detail Low
Fogging Distance Low
Dynamic Shadow Low
Glow Detail Low
Terrain Deco Disabled
World Detail Low
v2.0 Pixel Shaders Disabled
COMMENT - "Tribes Vengeance is set inside an arena and can use DX9 effects however these have been disabled for this processor review. The Athlon64 3400 can deliver a performance increase at all of the resolutions tested and at 1024x768 it delivers a 20% performance increase over the Sempron 3100."
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UNREAL TOURNAMENT
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ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768
32Bit Colour Depth
High World Texture Detail
High Skin Detail
Show Decals Enabled
Dynamic Lighting Enabled
Minimum Frame Rate 0
COMMENT - "Unreal Tournament is one of the older games tested but unlike Quake 3 Arena it has always been considered processor limited making it ideal for this review. Using Thunder the Athlon64 3400 is 18% faster than the Sempron 3100, with UTBench it is 18% faster and with Phobia it is 16% faster."
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UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004
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ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Bridge of Fate Level
Direct3D Render Device
32Bit Colour Depth
Texture Detail Normal
Character Detail Normal
World Detail High
Physics Detail High
Decal Stay High
Full Character Shadows
Full Fog Distance
Decals Enabled
Dynamic Lighting Enabled
Detail Textures Enabled
Coronas Enabled
Trilinear Filtering Enabled
Projectors Enabled
Foliage Enabled
Weather Effects Enabled
COMMENT - "The Sempron 3100 appears to be very cpu limited with this game and only loses 1fps even at 1600x1200. The Athlon64 3400 however has more power and is 22% faster at 1024x768 and even at 1600x1200 the Athlon64 3400 is 13% faster than Sempron 3100."
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WARHAMMER 40,000
DAWN OF WAR
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ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Full 3D Camera Enabled
Unit Occlusion Enabled
Destroy The Xenos Level
LOW QUALITY
Texture Detail Low
Terrain Detail Low
World Events Low
Shadows Low
Lights Low
FX Detail Low
COMMENT - "The Sempron 3100 is cpu limited with this game and once again the Athlon64 3400 has plenty of power. At the cpu limited resolution of 1024x768 the Athlon64 3400 is 23% faster than the Sempron 3100 and even at 1600x1200 the Athlon64 3400 is 11% faster than the Sempron."
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XPAND RALLY
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ATHLON64 3400 SEMPRON 3100 |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Fullscreen Enabled
Anti-Aliasing Disabled
Grand Canyon Level
LOW QUALITY
Bilinear
Material Quality Very Low
View Distance 20%
Water Quality Low
Car Deformations Disabled
Car Details Low
Car Envmap Quality Low
Car Shadows Low
COMMENT - "Both processors are cpu limited with Xpand Rally, the Sempron 3100 is the worst effected and only loses 1fps. The Athlon64 3400 can push the game along better but still only loses 6fps."
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FINAL GAME RESULTS
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COMMENT - "We have added up all of the 1024x768 game results to find out the total game performance. The Athlon64 3400 offers a total of 482 extra frames per second which is a total game performance increase over the Sempron 3100 of 19%."
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CONCLUSION - "The Athlon64 3400 is a very powerful processor and easily outperformed the Athlon XP 3200 and Sempron 3100 processors. It has a very high clock speed of 2.4Ghz and it's 512K Level 2 Cache also helped with synthetic and game benchmarks. We used a fairly modest video card the MSI GEFORCE 6600 GT with this review and we feel that if we had used a more expensive video card then the Athlon64 3400 would of been able to outperform the Sempron 3100 by even more. However the problem with the Athlon64 3400 is it's price, compared to the Sempron 3100 the Athlon64 3400 offers a performance increase of 19%. However the cost of the Athlon64 3400 is 48% more than for the Sempron 3100 so you have to ask yourself if the extra 19% performance is worth paying 48% more."
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