AMD K7 Athlon benchmarks

Jul 06, 1999 2:06am CST tags: Hardware (PC only)
AMD's Athlon being the hot topic of late, Aces Hardware compiles a bunch of benchmarks that they found on this French Athlon hands-on preview site. For the majority of you that can't read French, I suggest you try this link out...I don't know how well this translating will work for most of you, but hey, it's worth a shot ;-) Anyway, here's the best part:

Quake III 1.05

INTEL Pentium III 550

Amd Athlon 600 MHz

Profit / Loss

640*480 16 bits

76,2

91,4

20%

1024*768 16 bits

55,4

57,7

4%

 

Quake II - Crusher

INTEL Pentium III 550

Amd Athlon 600 MHz

Profit / Loss

640*480 16 bits - Software

21,2

29,3

38%

640*480 16 bits

60,7

76,2

26%

1024*768 16 bits

57,8

66,7

15%

 

Half Life Cheat

INTEL Pentium III 550

Amd Athlon 600 MHz

Profit / Loss

640*480 16 bits - Direct 3D

44,6

62,8

41%

1024*768 16 bits - Direct 3D

44,2

57,5

30%

640*480 16 bits - OpenGL

57,6

72,2

25%

1024*768 16 bits - OpenGL

56,5

67,7

20%

 

Also of interest would be Carmack on "K7".

        

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