Athlon XP 1800 VS Pentium 4 2.26 - Benchmarks

Necrosis · Jul 7, 2002, 11:01 AM

Hey Everyone,

I recently upgraded from an AMD Athlon XP to a Pentium 4. The only thing that is difference in the systems is:

1. Processor (DUH)
2. Motherboard
3. Ram
4. Video Card

Here is a link to a picture of the benchmarks, tell me what you think.

Athlon XP 1800 VS Pentium 4 2.26

The only thing that is overclocked on both rigs is the Athlon XP @ 1.61GHz.

Dom · Jul 7, 2002, 12:06 PM

Cool. Thanks for posting your results.

JavaFox · Jul 8, 2002, 06:10 AM

Necrosis, your results were, in a word, whack.

Which is not to say that I don't believe that these tests were legitimate. I think the Athlon fares favorably against the 2.26GHz P4. But just look at that 3D score, though -- there's something quite bizarre about that! A GF3Ti500 beating a GF4T4600??

Necrosis · Jul 8, 2002, 12:02 PM

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Originally posted by JavaFox
Necrosis, your results were, in a word, whack.

Which is not to say that I don't believe that these tests were legitimate. I think the Athlon fares favorably against the 2.26GHz P4. But just look at that 3D score, though -- there's something quite bizarre about that! A GF3Ti500 beating a GF4T4600??

I don't know how to explain it either. Matter of fact JavaFox when I first installed the system; and had not formated/reloaded windows. I was scoring around 850 in the raw 3D test. That was with the Geforce 3 Ti 500 in the system. I managed to get to get close with to the Athlon scores after I reloaded XP, and installed the Geforce 4.

1. Could it be the SIS Chipset sucks? Games seem quicker, and at least in 3DMark2000 it scores quite a bit higher.

2. This benchmark doesn't recognize the SSE2 instructions of my P4, maybe because it does a test just for these type of instructions sets later in the test their not intialized in the 3D test. However, isn't the Nvidia drivers supposed to also take advantage of these too?

3. If so, why does the Athlon score so well? Honestly I've scored over 1200 (raw 3D) with the Geforce 3 before with the Athlon system.

4. Here in about a week I will be upgrading my friend's system using my old motherboard and processor. My friend has a Geforce 3 Ti 200, and the same IDE controller and similar drives. I will benchmark his system and see how it compares. However, I'm also building another system based on the SIS 735 chipset for a friend without a computer. I'm selling my Geforce 3 to this friend; I will benchmark this system as well and see what he scores. He will also be buying an Athlon XP 1800 for his computer.

Maybe then we will know the answer to the mystery?

K.I.L.E.R · Jul 9, 2002, 05:51 AM

Mebe you had AF enabled and we all know a G4 takes a bigger plunge than a G3 with AF.

janusz · Jul 9, 2002, 12:41 PM

heh now imagine a 2.26B at 3Ghz YEAH BABY!!!!

Zardon · Jul 9, 2002, 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by janusz
heh now imagine a 2.26B at 3Ghz YEAH BABY!!!!

oh BEhhhaveeeee

Necrosis · Jul 9, 2002, 02:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by janusz
heh now imagine a 2.26B at 3Ghz YEAH BABY!!!!

Is your entire system water cooled??

janusz · Jul 9, 2002, 07:05 PM

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Originally posted by Necrosis
Is your entire system water cooled??

will be my son will be ( this month) but the cpu and vid are fridge cooled.....the fridge system is getting old and the parts from ace hardware i got where wearing out.

JavaFox · Jul 9, 2002, 07:40 PM

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Originally posted by janusz
heh now imagine a 2.26B at 3Ghz YEAH BABY!!!!

For those of you who only use AMD, that's "2.3GHz"

Silentst2000 · Jul 14, 2002, 12:42 PM

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Originally posted by JavaFox
For those of you who only use AMD, that's "2.3GHz"

Quit your crying.

Silentst2000 · Jul 15, 2002, 10:46 AM

That test IS very fishy...why?

Because the HDD's were suppost to be the same yet the amd scored about 20% lower.

a huge portion of the total score comes from disk performance so................................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...

Silentst2000 · Jul 15, 2002, 10:58 AM

btw
I scored ~250 dispite the fact that I outscored you 5-10% in every test except disk where I was like 30-50% slower.

Necrosis · Jul 15, 2002, 12:58 PM

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Originally posted by Silentst2000
btw
I scored ~250 dispite the fact that I outscored you 5-10% in every test except disk where I was like 30-50% slower.

Could you email me a copy of your pt file? I would like to compare.

Jul 7, 2002, 11:01 AM	#1
Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,838 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	Athlon XP 1800 VS Pentium 4 2.26 - Benchmarks Hey Everyone, I recently upgraded from an AMD Athlon XP to a Pentium 4. The only thing that is difference in the systems is: 1. Processor (DUH) 2. Motherboard 3. Ram 4. Video Card Here is a link to a picture of the benchmarks, tell me what you think. Athlon XP 1800 VS Pentium 4 2.26 The only thing that is overclocked on both rigs is the Athlon XP @ 1.61GHz.

Jul 9, 2002, 05:51 AM	#5
K.I.L.E.R Kronos, Father of Zeus Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 162 Rep Power: 0	Mebe you had AF enabled and we all know a G4 takes a bigger plunge than a G3 with AF. __________________ P4 1.8Ghz Intel i845 mobo R300 768mb RAM SBLive Windows XP Home

Jul 9, 2002, 12:41 PM	#6
janusz Abit Staff Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 124 Rep Power: 0	heh now imagine a 2.26B at 3Ghz YEAH BABY!!!! __________________ P4 3.06 @ 3.8GHz ABIT-BE7-G 512 pc 3500 3 Radeon 9700's @ 445/775 audigy 2 2X 200 WD special edition HDD's KURWA

Jul 15, 2002, 10:46 AM	#12
Silentst2000 Can I be cool? Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 355 Rep Power: 0	That test IS very fishy...why? Because the HDD's were suppost to be the same yet the amd scored about 20% lower. a huge portion of the total score comes from disk performance so................................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ... __________________ P4@2.4ghz Radeon 9700pro DDR 400 Nuff said

Jul 15, 2002, 10:58 AM	#13
Silentst2000 Can I be cool? Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 355 Rep Power: 0	btw I scored ~250 dispite the fact that I outscored you 5-10% in every test except disk where I was like 30-50% slower. __________________ P4@2.4ghz Radeon 9700pro DDR 400 Nuff said

Jul 7, 2002, 12:06 PM	#2
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Cool. Thanks for posting your results.

Jul 8, 2002, 06:10 AM	#3
JavaFox E Pluribus Unum Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,203 Rep Power: 0	Necrosis, your results were, in a word, whack. Which is not to say that I don't believe that these tests were legitimate. I think the Athlon fares favorably against the 2.26GHz P4. But just look at that 3D score, though -- there's something quite bizarre about that! A GF3Ti500 beating a GF4T4600??