Athlon 64 scores 15000 3dmarks01 easily

We always knew that the AMD processor could do much better than the appalling 3dmark 2001SE of 7913 and we were right. The Athlon 64 at 1.8 GHz this time, 200 MHz faster than the one we tested before, combined with a Radeon 9700 should give a Pentium 4 a run for its money.

For some reason the Nvidia card didn't run as fast as it could on the Hammer we tinkered with in Hanover. At least it didn't with the VIA board but Radeon runs them just fine on it.

This setup easily passes the 15000 line and gets very close to 16000 in 1024x768. That is a score that should be in the range of new P4s.

September feels a long way from now that's for sure. µ