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

Gaming Performance - 3DMark 2001SE

Although not much of a real-world gaming benchmark, 3DMark 2001SE has become a very popular method of measuring system performance so we include it here to compare the impact of CPU speed on 3D graphics performance.

Remember the job of the CPU here is to mainly facilitate in sending vertices to the GPU as well as any physics/AI going on in the game scenarios.

Gaming Performance 3DMark 2001 SE - 1024x768 Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz HT Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (2.167GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.083GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz) 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 15304 15304 15243 14944 14877 14810 14668 14619 14369 13746 13598 13431 13222 13150 13021 12751 12623 12573 12305 12100 12012 11817 11549 11312 11261 10724 10527 10515 10020 9826 9477 | 0 | 3061 | 6122 | 9182 | 12243 | 15304 | 18365

The 3000+ earns its rating by coming in right next to the 3.06GHz Pentium 4.