Prescott’s Back — 3.4GHz

Synthetic Testing:

FutureMark; 3dmark2001 SE, Build 330:

Results:The 3.4E actually passes up the 3.4C by a hair in this benchmark. Since the difference is so small it is not significant, but still worth pointing out.

Massive Development; AquaMark3:

The AquaMark3 executes a complete state-of-the-art game engine and generates 3D scenes designed to make the same demands on hardware as a modern game. The utilized game engine, the krass Engine, has been used in Aquanox and AquaNox 2: Revelation as well as in the upcoming RTS Spellforce by Phenomic Game Development. AquaMark3 utilizes recent hardware features of the new DirectX 9 API, such as PixelShader 2.0, while staying fully backward compatible to DirectX 8 and 7 graphics hardware.

SuperPi 1.1e :

SuperPi calculates the number Pi in this raw number crunching benchmark. The benchmark is fairly diverse and allows the user to change the number of digits of Pi that can be calculated. In this benchmark we ran SuperPi to 4 million places.

Results:The AMD A64 FX-53 passes up all of the other processors during Super Pi testing and finishes the benchmark with a 18 second lead over the next fastest processor — Intel 3.4E. This is one of the few benchmarks that shows the Prescott taking a demanding lead over the Northwood.

Let’s move on to some more benchmarks.