KribiBench, Realstorm, XviD encoding
There are some activities that just aren't partial to the Athlon's way of doing things. KribiBench is one of them.
Raytracing is just the opposite. The powerful Barton / Athlon 64 FPU begins to show its mettle, and the overclocked Barton XP-M just manages to steal first place from the A64 Model 3000+. It's not a cast-iron certainty that all XP-Ms will overclock to the same levels, but with a scant 1.45v operating voltage we'd be surprised if the majority, with a dash more voltage, didn't hit at least Barton XP3200+ speeds,
Video encoding was undertaken by using the first vob file of Sleepy Hollow. A 1433kb/s bit rate and the free XviD CODEC were used. Another appreciable, expected gain in performance. It was only core headroom that stopped AMD releasing, say, a 2.4GHz Barton. The architecture is still good.
