The sales of the Pentium 4 processor haven't done too well lately, so that new price cuts and a faster version shall improve the situation. We already know that for some surprising reasons Quake 3 Arena is the only old 3D-game that shows Pentium 4 in a particularly good light. This might be based on the fact that Intel enjoys a very close relationship with Id. At the low resolution of 640x480x16, which makes sure that the graphics card doesn't become the bottleneck, Pentium 4 is clearly leading the pack. Even Pentium 4 1.5 GHz is able to leave the fastest Athlon processor behind.
All processors score alike.
Due to the higher polygon count and the amount of lighting effects the processor has to do a lot more work. In this test Pentium 4 1.7 is beating Athlon 1333 as well, but the margin has shrunk quite a bit. At real-world resolution Pentium 4 1.7 GHz is still able to leave the 'unoverclocked' Athlon fraction behind, although the differences aren't very big anymore. II Copyright of all documents and scripts belonging to this site by Thomas Pabst 1996 - 2001. Most of the information contained on this site is copyrighted material.