Tom heeft een review gepost van een 800MHz Kryotech Cool Athlon systeempje. Uiteraard blowt dit systeem alles dat Intel op dit moment kan bieden volledig weg. Vooral in 3DStudio Max is het verschil dramatisch:
Wow! At 800MHz the Athlon provides almost double the performance over the Pentium III 600Mhz. 3D-rendering software typically runs pretty tight loops that can be handled within the CPU's caches. This is why 3D Studio Max scales perfectly with CPU clock speed. 800 MHz are 33% higher than 600 MHz and 109 pph are 33% more than 82 pph. It's very hard to find any other kind of software that scales as well as 3D-renderers. [break]Wat betreft het snelheidsvoordeel t.o.v. een ' normale' Athlon-600 heeft Tom ook een analyse: [/break] 3D Studio Max scales perfectly, we see an increase of the 33% that 800 MHz is more than 600 MHz. The rendering process is running almost completely within Athlon's big 1st level cache. Half-Life requires a lot of CPU-performance too, which is why it benefits from the 200 MHz higher clock frequency by 24%. Sysmark 98 under Windows98 and NT is restricted by the hard drive performance, which impacts the performance increase down to 20 or 19%. Quake2 and Quake3 are depending on the graphics card performance, even at a resolution of only 640x480x16. This is why the performance increase at Quake3-Test is only a meager 12%.
Check THG voor de review.
