Performance of an Athlon 64 Prototype: first benchmarks

For those interested: EDIT: both in xvid and divx encoding, an Athlon64 1,2 Ghz is almost as fast as a P4 2,2 Ghz ;)

Interesting to note that in the 3dmark benchmarks, the one where Athlon64 is superior is the Lobby bench. I think i have read somewhere that this one is the most CPU demading of all (correct?), and the others are more graphics intensive. Also the Spec results are very promissing.

1 meg of cache really helps... take the p4 for example... when they switched from the willy to the northwood core!!!

wow 1.2ghz and its right up there with the p4 2.2ghz :eek: :eek: :eek: talk about efficient! The cache would play a big part I think though , 1mb of cache ? how much will this thing cost?

by the way isn't the nature test a pure CPU power test???

And now the tests, but using SSE2 benchmarks: See original article in german: