"Today we are reviewing the powerful AMD Athlon64 3500 Venice processor for Socket 939 which runs at 2.2Ghz, other processors featured include the Athlon64 3400 Newcastle 2.4Ghz Socket 754, Athlon64 3000 Venice 1.8Ghz Socket 939 and the Sempron 3400 Palermo 2.0Ghz CPU. Benchmark software used was Metabench, Realstorm 2004, Sciencemark 2 and SuperPI."

AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE REVIEW

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR	AMD ATHLON64 3500
	AMD ATHLON64 3400
	AMD ATHLON64 3000
	AMD SEMPRON 3400
VIDEO CARD	MSI GEFORCE 6600 GT
NVIDIA DRIVER	FORCEWARE v91.31
MOTHERBOARD	ASROCK 939 DUAL SATA 2
MEMORY	2 x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
DIRECTX VERSION	v9.0C

METABENCH

	3711
	4019
	3163
	3290

ATHLON64 3500 VENICE ATHLON64 3400 NEWCASTLE
ATHLON64 3000 VENICE SEMPRON 3400 PALERMO

COMMENT - "It appears that Metabench also favours a high clock speed and the Athlon64 3400 beats the Athlon64 3500 by 8%. The Sempron 3400 is able to beat the Athlon64 3000 by 4%."

REALSTORM 2004

	5410
	5555
	4623
	4541

ATHLON64 3500 VENICE ATHLON64 3400 NEWCASTLE
ATHLON64 3000 VENICE SEMPRON 3400 PALERMO

COMMENT - "The Athlon64 3400 manages to beat the Athlon64 3500 by 3%."

SCIENCE MARK 2

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS (LOWER IS BETTER)

	73
	71
	93
	82

ATHLON64 3500 VENICE ATHLON64 3400 NEWCASTLE
ATHLON64 3000 VENICE SEMPRON 3400 PALERMO

COMMENT - "Lower is better with Science Mark 2 and I was surprised by the close result between the Athlon64 3500 and Athlon64 3400. "

SUPER PI

4MB (LOWER IS BETTER)

	191
	195
	229
	228

ATHLON64 3500 VENICE ATHLON64 3400 NEWCASTLE
ATHLON64 3000 VENICE SEMPRON 3400 PALERMO

COMMENT - "SuperPI should favour the higher clock speed of the Athlon 3400 but the Athlon64 3500 has the edge and outperforms the Athlon64 3400 by 3%."

AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - AMD ATHLON64 3500 VENICE INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2005 AND CPU BENCH

PAGE 3 - METABENCH, READSTORM, SCIENCE MARK 2 AND SUPER PI

PAGE 4 - SISOFTWARE SANDRA 2007

PAGE 5 - QUAKE 3 ARENA, TRIBES VENGEANCE, UT2004 AND FINAL RESULT

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