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To: jcholewa who wrote (52672)	8/27/2001 7:36:12 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

JC, Re: "Two modern, popular games in which the Athlon outperforms the P4 would be Serious Sam and Max Payne. It also does better in (I think) that Aquanox thing, whereas P4 tends to win in Quake III, MTBR, and DroneZ." I haven't seen Max Payne scores, but I'll take your word for it. In terms of Serious Sam, you are correct that this game favors the Athlon. For Aquanox, I think that game is heavily dependant on the optimizations levels of the video drivers, since I've seen it go either way (both heavily favoring Intel and AMD). On the Intel list, Quake III, MTBR, and DroneZ heavily favor the Intel platform, but you also forgot that MDK2 heavily favors the Pentium 4 when HW T&L is enabled, as well as 3DMark 2001 (which tests a number of high powered 3D graphics engines). If you think of it, Intel had one single game in the beginning of the year to show off Pentium 4 performance (Quake III), and now they have many. This is no doubt due to developers getting more experienced with the newer micro-architecture. I expect more to follow. I also expect more realtime 3D in the consumer environment, both on the web, and in their applications. It's inevitable, and early scores from Flash plugins, and other Internet benchmarks show realtime 3D to heavily favor the Pentium 4. wanna_bmw