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A Guide to Building a PC with an AMD Athlon™ Processor
3DMark
3DMark™ 99 MAX from Futuremark was designed specifically to measure 3D
performance and includes optimizations for AMD's 3DNow! technology, Intel's SSE
technology, and standard floating point processing for CPUs without 3DNow! or SSE
technologies. CPU 3DMark is a subset of 3DMark 99 MAX that indicates how quickly
your processor can handle large amounts of 3D geometry and lighting operations.
Figure 1. 3D Mark Benchmark Results
Benchmark System Configuration.
Diamond 770 using nVidia TNT2 Ultra 150MHz core, 183MHz memory
clock 32MB, Western Digital Expert 41800, single PC100 128MB DIMM, SoundBlaster Live (Value)
Audio, Linksys HPN100 Home Ethernet card, Toshiba 6X DVD SD-M1212, Dual Boot Windows® 98 &
Windows NT® 4.0 using Norton System Commander. Windows NT 4.0 is installed with SP4, Windows 98
with DX 6.1A build 2150, and nVidia TNT2 Ultra Driver Rev 1.81 under Windows 98 and Windows NT.
AMD Athlon™ processor-based system: Reference Motherboard Rev. B*, BIOS Rev AFTB00-2, Bus
Mastering EIDE Driver v1.03, AGP miniport v4.41.
Pentium® III processor-based system: ASUS P2B Rev 1.02, BIOS Rev 1008 beta 4, EIDE-BM Driver
5/11/98, AGP miniport 5/11/98.
* This Futuremark benchmark employs an AMD Athlon processor-specific DLL that has been devel-
oped independently by AMD. This benchmark is not meant to replace or be a new version of
3DMark, it is simply intended to demonstrate the superior performance capabilities of the
AMD Athlon processor architecture.
** This motherboard is not commercially available at this time.
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Pentium® III 600
AMD Athlon 600
AMD Athlon™ 650
Futuremark 3DMark™ 99 MAX
- 3DMarks -
Slower
Faster
The AMD Athlon™ 650 processor provides the projected
performance of a Pentium® III running at 770MHz.