AMD's Athlon XP 3000+: Barton cuts it close

Gaming Performance - Unreal Tournament 2003 (Botmatch)

With previous versions of UT2003, Botmatch couldn't be used to compare different systems as there was a bug in the benchmark that could cause inflated numbers on AMD systems vs. Intel systems. We went to Epic with the problem and they provided us with a beta patch in time for this review, the fix will make it into the next publicly available patch release in several weeks.

For those of you that aren't familiar, the Botmatch test focuses mostly on physics and artificial intelligence performance in UT2003, the two areas that are the most CPU dependent in the game.

Gaming Performance Unreal Tournament 2003 - Botmatch Benchmark - 1024x768 Maximum Detail AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz) Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz HT Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (2.167GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.083GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33GHz) Intel Pentium 4 1.8AGHz Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6AGHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz 74.7 70.4 69.6 69.6 69.1 67.7 66 63.9 61.8 61.5 58.1 56.9 56.7 56.6 55.2 55 53.9 52.1 51.9 50.7 49.3 48.7 47.7 44.7 43.6 41.5 41.1 40.2 38.7 37 35.5 | 0 | 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | 75 | 90

Here we see a continued advantage by the Athlon XP, with the XP 3000+ still outpacing the 3.06GHz Pentium 4.