AMD Processor

Performance
Evaluation Guide

Mark W. Welker
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES
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Sunnyvale, CA 94088

Publication # 30579 Revision: 3.71

Issue Date: June 2005
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Contents

Revision History .......................................... 7

About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Life of Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
AMD64 Processor Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
AMD's Benchmarking Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Office Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Digital Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Computer Gaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Optimal System Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
BIOS Configuration for the AMD Athlon™ 64 Processors on the
ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Operating System Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Operating System Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Install Windows® XP Service Pack 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Benchmark Configuration and Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Office Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Digital Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Gaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
AMD's Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Appendix AScripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Spinter Cell Batch File Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
MovieMaker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Sony Vegas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Travel Ready Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Remote Collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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List of Figures

Figure 1. AMD64 Processor Architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Figure 2. HyperTransport™ Technology Block Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Figure 3. AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor Architecture . . . . . . . . . 17
Figure 4. AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 Processor Overall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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List of Tables

Table 1. AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor 4000+ System Configuration . . . . . . . 22

Table 2. AMD Athlon 64 Processor X2 4800+ System Configuration . . . . . . 22
Table 3. AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 Processor System Configuration . . . . . . . . . 23
Table 4. Intel Pentium® 4 Processor 3.8 GHz System Configurations . . . . . 24
Table 5. Intel Pentium 4 Processor Extreme Edition 3.73 GHz System
Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Table 6. Productivity Overall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Table 7. BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 Productivity (ver. 1.0 patch 2) . . . . . . . 52
Table 8. Ziff Davis Media Inc.’s Business Winstone® 2004 v1.01 . . . . . . . . 52
Table 9. Ziff Davis Media Inc.’s Business Winstone 2004 Multitasking . . . . . 53
Table 10. WinRAR Overall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Table 11. PC World Magazine Worldbench™ 5 (May 10, 2004 with
SP2 Reg Edit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Table 12. Remote Collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Table 13. Travel Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Table 14. Digital Media Overall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Table 15. BAPCO SYSmark 2004 Internet Content Creation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Table 16. Content Creation Winstone 2004 v1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Table 17. Dr. DivX (Version 1.0.6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Table 18. RazorLAME MP3 Encoder (version 1.1.5.1342). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Table 19. Panorama Factory (version 3.3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Table 20. POV-Ray (version 3.7.4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Table 21. Sony Vegas Studio (version 4.0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Table 22. Microsoft® Movie Maker (version 5.1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Table 23. Computer Gaming Overall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Table 24. Futuremark Corporation 3DMark® 2003 (Hardware) (Patch 340) . . 58
Table 25. Futuremark Corporation 3DMark 2003 (Software) (Patch 340) . . . 58
Table 26. Futuremark Corporation 3DMark 2005 (Hardware T&L) . . . . . . . . 59
Table 27. Futuremark Corporation 3DMark 2005 (Software T&L) . . . . . . . . . 59
Table 28. Half-Life 2 (version 1.1.0 using at_coast_05_rev7.dem) . . . . . . . . 59

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Table 29. Half-Life 2 (version 1.1.0 using at_prison_05_rev7.dem) . . . . . . . 60

Table 30. Jedi Knights II Demo (Patched to 1.04) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Table 31. QuakeIII Arena Demo2 (version 1.11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Table 32. Return to Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (version 2.60) . . . . 61
Table 33. Unreal Tournament 2003 Flyby (version 3355) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Table 34. Unreal Tournament 2003 Botmatch (version 3355) . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Table 35. Splinter Cell (1_1_1) (version 1.2b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Table 36. Splinter Cell (1_1_2) (version 1.2b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Table 37. FarCry (version 1.3.1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Table 38. Painkiller (version 1.64) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Table 39. Crafty (Version 19.19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Table 40. Doom3 (Version 1.1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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Revision History

Date Revision Description

June 2005 3.71 Corrected title for Travel Ready Scenario.
June 2005 3.70 Updated for the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 processor and the
AMD Athlon 64 processor 4800+ relative to the
Intel Pentium® 4 550 processor, which operates at 3.8 GHz.
Removed the Performance Analysis (64-bit) section, as these
tests will be shown in a separate document.
Removed obsolete processor information.
October 2004 3.61 Incorporated documentation edits.
October 2004 3.60 Updated for the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-55 processor and the
AMD Athlon 64 processor 4000+ relative to the
Intel Pentium® 4 550 processor, which operates at 3.4 GHz.
Removed obsolete processor information.
Added the following tests to the standard benchmarking suite:
• “Dr. DivX (Version 1.0.6)2” on page 56 (Replaces RawAVI to
MPEG2 and Xmpeg)
• “Return to Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (version 2.60)”
on page 61 (Replaces Return to Castle Wolfenstein)
• “FarCry (version 1.3.1)” on page 62
• “FarCry pier” on page 57
Note: The two FarCry benchmarks were combined in revision 3.70.
• “Painkiller (version 1.64)” on page 63
Within the Performance Analysis test suite, 64-bit versus 32-bit
test results have been combined with the 32-bit and 64-bit
results, where applicable.
Note: These changes are obsolete, as the Performance Analysis test suite has
been removed from this document.

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Date Revision Description

June 2004 3.50 Updated to reflect the AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-53 (939) processor
and the 3700+ and 3800+ processors relative to the Intel
Pentium® 4 Extreme Edition 3.4 GHz and the Pentium 4
3.4 GHz processors.
Removed obsolete processor information.
Added the following tests to the Performance Analysis test
suite:
Note: These changes are obsolete, as the Performance Analysis test suite has
been removed from this document.
• Table 64, “Panorama Factory Ver. 3.1 64-Bit Benchmark” on
page 69
• Table 65, “Crafty Factory Ver. 19.12 64-Bit Benchmark” on
page 69
• Table 64, “Panorama Factory Ver. 3.1 Benchmark Results” on
page 72
• Table 65, “Crafty Ver. 19.12 32-Bit Benchmark” on page 72
Note: Tables 61 and 62 have been obsoleted as of version 3.60
of this document.
March 2004 3.43 Updated legal attribution for various benchmarks.
March 2004 3.41 As of revision 3.60, these tables are obsolete.
Updated the following tables:
• Table 35 on page 63
• Table 45 on page 66
• Table 48 on page 68
• Table 51 on page 69
• Table 77 on page 78
March 2004 3.40 Replaced the obsolete AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-51 processor
information with the AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 processor. This
change affects Table 3 on page 23 and each benchmark result.

Replaced the older Intel Pentium® 4 3.2 GHz configuration and

performance data with the Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz Extreme
Edition Processor. This change affects Table 4 on page 22 and
each benchmark result.
Replaced the benchmark result tables with graphs and
corresponding tables.

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Date Revision Description

January 2004 3.32 Corrected instructions for “Ziff Davis Media Inc. Business
Winstone® 2004” on page 31, “Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Business
Multitasking Winstone® 2004” on page 31 and “Ziff Davis Media
Inc.’s Content Creation Winstone® 2004” on page 36.
Moved 64-Bit performance results from non-optimized rows to
optimized rows in Table 7 on page 49 and Table 8 on page 51.
Note: These changes are obsolete, as the Performance Analysis test suite has
been removed from this document.
January 2004 3.31 Updated performance results for Table 7 on page 49 and Table 8
on page 51.
Corrected minor typos throughout.
December 2003 3.30 Updated to reflect 3400+ launch.
Figure 3 was removed.
Additional instructions were added for the DivX Encoder for 64-
Bit installation and run. Now refer to “Mini-GZIP” on page 61.
December 2003 3.25 Removed Revision bars.
December 2003 3.24 On Page 13, removed references to WinACE, because it is no
longer tested.
Within “Operating System Configuration” on page 26, added
instructions to skip steps 12 and 13 because they do not apply if
Microsoft® Windows® is not yet installed. Instead, skip to step
14.
On page 30 added notations that ASUS and MSI drivers are
applicable only to their respective motherboards.
December 2003 3.23 Updated benefits for 64-bit processing in “64-bit processing” on
page 14.
Note: This changes is now obsolete, as the Performance Analysis test suite has
been removed from this document.
Corrected attribution in “WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1” on
page 20.
November 2003 3.22 Added figure label to Figure 3 on page 46. Corrected two
column format balancing in various locations.
November 2003 3.21 Applied new document template.
October 2003 3.2 Revision to Table 3 on page 23 to correct memory
manufacturer.
Revision to update configuration steps for To install the video
clip to use for DivX Encoder on page 45.
September 2003 3.1 Revision to include NVIDIA video driver and ASUS chipset
installation.
September 2003 3.0 Initial Public Release

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About This Document

This document is intended for use by those, particularly in the hardware review
community, who are interested in evaluating AMD64 performance, as
demonstrated by the AMD Athlon™ 64, AMD Athlon 64 X2 and AMD Athlon 64 FX
processors.

Introduction

This document describes AMD’s method of performing processor performance

evaluation, and details the steps taken to arrive at the results posted on the
web.

Audience
This document is intended for use by those, particularly in the hardware review
community, who are interested in evaluating AMD64 technology performance, as
demonstrated by the AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Athlon 64 FX family of processors.

Life of Document
This document is intended for use when comparing the AMD Athlon 64 processor
model 4000+, the AMD Athlon 64 X2 model 4800+, and the AMD Athlon™ 64
FX-57 processors against processors available from other vendors at the time of
publication of this document. As new speed grades become available, this
document may become obsolete or revised as necessary.

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AMD64 Processor Architecture

Optimal benchmarking of AMD processors does not require detailed knowledge

of processor or system architecture. However, knowledge of the benefits of
AMD64 processor-based systems will help enable benchmarks to show the
different ways of how this processor performs relative to its competition. AMD
designed a 64-bit processor that offers industry-leading performance and native
compatibility with current 32-bit applications. Architectural improvements
specifically designed to increase instructions per clock (IPC) include:
• AMD64 Technology
When utilizing the AMD64 Instruction Set Architecture, 64-bit mode is
designed to offer:
– Support for 64-bit operating systems to provide full, transparent, and
simultaneous 32-bit and 64-bit platform application multitasking.
– A physical address space that can support systems with up to 1 terabyte of
installed RAM, shattering the 4 gigabyte RAM barrier present on current x86
implementations.
– Sixteen, 64-bit general-purpose integer registers that quadruple the general
purpose register space available to applications and device drivers.
– Sixteen, 128-bit XMM registers for enhanced multimedia performance to
double the register space of current SSE/SSE2/SSE3 implementations.
• Integrated DDR memory controller, as shown in Figure 1 on page 15.
– This feature allows for a reduction in memory latency, thereby increasing
overall system performance.
– Benchmarks like Business Winstone® and WinRAR Data compression, and
AquaMark3 all help show the benefit of reduced latency.
• An advanced HyperTransport™ link, as shown in Figure 2 on page 16.
– This feature dramatically improves the I/O bandwidth, enabling much faster
access to peripherals such as hard drives, USB 2.0, and Gigabit Ethernet
cards.
– HyperTransport technology enables benchmark programs like Business
Winstone and WinRAR Data compression to illustrate higher processor
performance due to a reduced I/O interface throttle.

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• Very large level one (L1) and level 2 (L2) on-die cache
– With 128 kbytes of L1 cache and 1 Mbyte of L2 cache, the AMD Athlon 64
processor is able to excel at performing matrix calculations on arrays.
– Programs that use intensive, large matrix calculations will benefit from fitting
the entire matrix in the L2 cache.
• Processor core clock-for-clock improvements, including larger TLB
(translation look-aside buffers) with reduced latencies and improved branch
prediction through four times the number of bimodal counters in the global
history counter, as compared to seventh-generation processors.
– These features drive improvements to the IPC, delivering a more efficient
pipeline for CPU-intensive applications.
– CPU-intensive games like Comanche 4 and Unreal Tournament benefit from
these core improvements.
• Introduction of the SSE3 instruction set, which along with support of
3DNow!™ Professional, (SSE and 3DNow! Enhanced) completes support for
all industry-standard x86 32-bit instruction set extensions.
• 64-bit processing
– A 64-bit address and data set enables the processor to process in the
terabyte space.
– Microsoft® Windows® XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems
supports up to 32 GB of RAM and up to 16 TB of virtual memory.
– Gamers can preload entire three-dimensional worlds into memory for a fully
immersive experience.
– Amateurs can edit home videos with ease, providing professional results.
– The 64-bit space is designed to bring home the digital experience.
• The Industry’s first true on-die dual core x86 PC processor
– Inter-core communication at CPU speed
– Direct access to memory controller and HyperTransport technology link

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Figure 1 is a generic diagram showing the architecture that is internal to all

AMD64 technology-based processors.

AMD64 Processor
Architecture
DDR Memory
Controller

L1
Instruction
Cache
AMD64 L2
Core Cache
L1
Data
Cache

HyperTransport™
technology

Figure 1. AMD64 Processor Architecture

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Figure 2 is a block diagram of a system using HyperTransport™ technology.

AMD64
Device #0
Processor

DDR Memory
HyperTransportTM I/O links
• Up to 1GB bandwidth available
AGP3.0/PCI-X®
• Extensive data protection/management
• Integrated power management TM Interface
• Building block structure HyperTransport
• Up to N devices supported in chain Tunnel
AGP3.0/PCI-X®
Device #1 Graphics Adapter

***
Device #N
EIDE AC-97
Ethernet HyperTransport USB
SMBus I/O Hub LPC
IEEE 1394

PCI ( 33 MHz/32-bit) PCI-X® (up to 266 MHz/64-bit) Bus

Slot

Slot

Slot

Figure 2. HyperTransport™ Technology Block Diagram

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Figure 3 is a block diagram of the AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core processor

architecture.
Dual-Core Processor Architecture
Replaces Address, Data and Control Bus

The industry’s first true on- HyperTransport™

die dual-core x86 technology accelerates the
processor system bus for high-speed
I/O communication
• Inter-core communication
at CPU speed DDR Memory HyperTransport™ • 8.0 GB/s of available
• Direct access to memory Controller Technology system bandwidth
controller and • 2000 MHz System Bus
HyperTransport™
technology link
Cross Bar Switch
Enhanced Virus Protection
for Windows® XP SP2
• AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-
• Designed to help prevent
the spread of certain System Request Queue Core processors are true
dual core.
viruses, like MSBlaster and
Slammer • Independent L2 cache
• Significantly reduces the • Intelligent System Request
cost and down time Queue and integrated
associated with similar L2 L2 Cross Bar Switch
viruses and improves the Cache Cache
protection of computers
and personal information
against certain PC viruses
L1 L1 L1 L1
Instruction Data Instruction Data
AMD64 Architecture delivers Cache Cache Cache Cache • Cool’n’Quiet™ technology
leading-edge software for quieter computer and
performance lower power costs
• Both high-performance and • Recognized by the U.S.
32- and 64-bit computing Environmental Protection
• Experience dual-core
AMD64 AMD64 Agency in 2005 for the
performance today with no Processor Processor advancement of energy-
hardware changes (a BIOS Core Core efficient computer
technology
update may be required)

Figure 3. AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor Architecture

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AMD's Benchmarking Methodology

AMD assembled a suite of industry standard benchmarks and applications

designed to reflect typical end user applications. Specifically, AMD has identified
three usage models which we believe best exemplify the commercial and
consumer end-user PC experience:
1. Office Productivity
2. Digital Media
3. Gaming
From this list, AMD chose the following benchmarks and applications to
represent these end-user experiences. AMD recommends the use of the
following benchmarks for proper, balanced, real-world performance analysis.

Office Productivity
AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors run multiple tasks efficiently.
Work productivity may increase because you can perform more tasks and wait
less for an application to deliver a response. The following applications simulate
a workload likely to be seen in an office workplace environment.

• Business Winstone® 2004 v1.01 – Microsoft Access 2002

– Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 – Microsoft Excel 2002
– Microsoft Outlook 2002 SP-2 – Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
– Microsoft Project 2002 – Microsoft Outlook 2002
– Microsoft Access 2002 SP-2 – Microsoft Word 2002
– Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 SP-2 – Network Associates Mcafee
VirusScan 7.0
– Microsoft Excel 2002 SP-2
– ScanSoft Dragon Naturally Speaking
– Microsoft FrontPage 2002 SP-2 6 Preferred
– Microsoft Word 2002 SP-2 – WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1
– Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition
2003 • WinRAR ver 3.42
– WinZip 8.1 SR-1 • PCWorldBench 5 (May 10, 2004 edition
• Business Winstone 2004 Multitasking with SP2 reg edit)
v1.01 – ACD Systems ACDSee PowerPack 5.0
– Multitasks applications found in – Adobe PhotoShop 7.0.1
Business Winstone 2004 v1.01 – Adobe Premiere 6.5
– Ahead Nero Software Nero Express
• SYSmark® 2004, Office Productivity
6.0.0.3
version 1.0 patch 2
– Discreet 3ds max 5.1 (DirectX)
– Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0.5
– Discreet 3ds max 5.1 (OpenGL)

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– Microsoft Office XP - SP2 – Host system shares a Powerpoint

– Microsoft Windows® Media Encoder presentation on the target system
9.0 – Microsoft Windows Media Encoder
– Mozilla 1.4 converts a MPEG2 file to Mpeg4
– Musicmatch Jukebox 7.10 • Travel Ready (Multi-application
– Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5 Microsoft Publisher 2003 ver.
– WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1 11.5525.5606 + Nero Recoder ver
3.1.0.0)
• Remote collaboration (Multi-application – Microsoft Publisher runs with a
Netmeeting ver. 3.01 + Windows Media scripted input to create a newsletter
Encoder ver. 9.00.00.2980)
– Nero recoder runs to convert a MPEG2
– Microsoft Netmeeting launched on file to Nero’s MPEG4 format
two systems
The Office Productivity suite now includes two likely operating scenarios. The
first is a remote collaboration scenario. In this scenario, Microsoft Netmeeting is
launched on two systems. The host system then shares a PowerPoint
presentation on the target system.
The other scenario combines Microsoft Publisher 2003 (version 11.5525.5606)
with Nero Recorder (version 3.1.0.0). The scenario is a script that creates a
newsletter while Nero runs and converts a MPEG2 file into Nero’s MPEG4 format.

Digital Media
AMD64 processor-based systems take advantage of the newly-designed system
features and deliver outstanding performance for digital creation and playback.

• Content Creation Winstone® 2004 • SYSmark® 2004 Internet Content

(version 1.01) Creation
– Adobe Photoshop® 7.01, Adobe – Adobe Photoshop 7.01, Adobe
Premiere 6.50 Premiere 6.5, Adobe After Effects 5.5
– Macromedia Director MX 9.0, – Discrete 3ds max 5.1
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.1 – Network Associates Mcafee VirusScan
– Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 7.0
version 9.00.00.2980 – WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1
– Newtek LightWave 3d 7.5b – Macromedia Dreamweaver MX,
– Steinberg Wave Lab 4.0 Macromedia Flash MX
• Dr. Divx (version 1.06) • Panorama Factory version 3.3
• RazorLAME ver. 1.1.5 – Photo stitching program
• POV-Ray version 3.7.4 • Sony Vegas Studio ver 4.0
– 3D Rendering program – Video File Conversion
• Microsoft Movie Maker ver 5.1
– Still picture to movie conversion.

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Computer Gaming
The high performance benefits will amaze computer gamers. The following
benchmarks focus on the three dimensional capabilities of a system:
Note: Computer gaming may reveal limitations in a graphics card and may not truly represent
relative processor performance.
– 3DMark® 2003 (360 patch) (Hardware and Software)
– 3DMark 2005 (120 patch) (Hardware and Software)
– Crafty version 19.19
– Doom3 version 1.1
– Far Cry version 1.3.1 (Pier)
– Half-Life 2 version 1.0.1.0 (at_coast_05_rev7.dem, and at_prison_05_rev7.dem)
– Pain Killer version 1.64
– Quake III version 1.11
– Return to Castle Wolfenstein Enimy Territory version 2.60
– Splinter Cell version 1.2b (tests 1_1_1 and 1_1_2)
– Star Wars - Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast version 1.04
– Unreal Tournament 2004 version 3355 (Flyby and Botmatch)

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Optimal System Configuration

This section describes the configurations used by AMD to perform the
benchmarks. Systems that conform to the configurations shown in Table 1,
Table 2 Table 3 on page 23, Table 4 on page 24, and Table 5 on page 24 are the
most likely to obtain optimal system performance.

Table 1. AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor 4000+ System Configuration

Component Manufacturer Model Description
AMD Athlon™ 64
Processor AMD Clock frequency: 2.4 GHz
Processor 4000+
Operating Windows® XP
System Microsoft® Version 2002 (Service Pack 2)
Professional
nForce4 SLI MCP, SATA driver NVIDIA
Motherboard Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
5.10.2600.507
Hard drive Western Digital Raptor (2x) SATA RAID 10k RPM 36.0 GB
CMX512-
RAM memory Corsair 2 X 512 MB DIMM PC3500 Module
3200XLPRO
FX6800 ULTRA PCI- 256 MB Onboard DDR RAM, Video Driver
Video Card NVIDIA
Express 7.1.8.4

Table 2. AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor X2 4800+ System Configuration

Component Manufacturer Model Description
AMD Athlon™ 64
Processor AMD Clock frequency: 2.4 GHz
Processor X2 4800+
Operating Windows® XP
System Microsoft® Version 2002 (Service Pack 2)
Professional
nForce4 SLI MCP, SATA driver NVDIA
Motherboard Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
5.10.2600.507
Hard drive Western Digital Raptor (2x) SATA RAID 10k RPM 36.0 GB
CMX512-
RAM memory Corsair 2 X 512 MB DIMM PC3500 Module
3200XLPRO
FX6800 ULTRA PCI- 256 MB Onboard DDR RAM, Video Driver
Video Card NVIDIA
Express 7.1.8.4

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Table 3. AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 Processor System Configuration

Component Manufacturer Model Description
AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57
Processor AMD Clock frequency: 2.6 GHz
Processor
Operating
System Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Version 2002 (Service Pack 2)

nForce4 SLI MCP, SATA driver NVIDIA

Motherboard Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
5.10.2600.507
Hard drive Western Digital Raptor (2x) SATA RAID 10k RPM 36.0 GB

RAM memory Corsair CMX512-3200XLPRO 2 X 512 MB DIMM PC3500 Module

256 MB Onboard DDR RAM, Video
Video Card NVIDIA FX6800 ULTRA PCI-Express
Driver 7.1.8.4
Note:
® 64-bit operating environment.
1. This version is for use in the upcoming Windows

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Table 4. Intel Pentium® 4 Processor 3.8 GHz System Configurations

Component Manufacturer Model Description

Processor Intel Intel Pentium® 4 processor Clock Frequency: 3.8 GHz,

with HT technology 800 MHz System Bus
Operating
System Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Version 2002 (Service Pack 2)

925XCV, BIOS Intel i925 Chipset, Intel 82801FR

Motherboard Intel
CV92510A.86A.0218 SATA Raid Controller 4.6.06758
Hard drive Western Digital Raptor 2 X SATA RAID 10 k RPM 36.0 GB
RAM memory Corsair CM2X512-5400C4PRO 2 X 512 MB DIMM Module
256 MB Onboard DDR RAM,
Video Card NVIDIA FX6800 Ultra PCI-Express
Video Driver 7.1.8.4

Table 5. Intel Pentium® 4 Processor Extreme Edition 3.73 GHz System

Configurations
Component Manufacturer Model Description

Processor Intel Intel Pentium® 4 processor Clock Frequency: 3.73 GHz,

with HT technology 800 MHz System Bus
Operating
System Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Version 2002 (Service Pack 2)

925XCV, BIOS Intel i925 Chipset, Intel 82801FR

Motherboard Intel
CV92510A.86A.0218 SATA Raid Controller 4.6.06758
Hard drive Western Digital Raptor 2 X SATA RAID 10 k RPM 36.0 GB
RAM memory Corsair CM2X512-5400C4PRO 2 X 512 MB DIMM Module
256 MB Onboard DDR RAM,
Video Card NVIDIA FX6800 Ultra PCI-Express
Video Driver 7.1.8.4

The following sections detail how to set up the BIOS and the operating system,
and which settings AMD uses for running each benchmark.

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BIOS Configuration for the AMD Athlon™ 64

Processors on the ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe
The following setup instructions apply to all AMD Athlon™ 64 processor models
in this document. Modifications should be made to any other configuration where
applicable.
Use the following steps to set up the BIOS for optimal operation with the
AMD Athlon 64 processors. Use the arrow keys (Right Arrow →, Left Arrow ←,
Up Arrow ↑, and Down Arrow ↓) to navigate through the BIOS screens, to select
menus, and to highlight specific options to change. For most options, use the +
and – keys to change the setting. After selecting each setting press Enter to set
the selection and move to the next step.
1. Press Del to enter the BIOS setup 6. Select the Onboard Device
screens Configuration > NVRAID
Configuration menu.
2. Select Exit menu.
a. Select Load Setup Defaults. a. For RAID Enable, select Enabled.

b. Press Y. b. For First SATA Master, select

Enabled.
3. Under Advanced > CPU
c. For Second SATA Master, select
Configuration > HyperTransport
Enabled.
Frequency, select 5X.
d. For Third SATA Master, select
4. Select the Advanced > CPU
Enabled.
Configuration > DRAM
Configuration menu. e. For Forth SATA Master, select
Enabled.
c. For Timing Mode, select Manual.
7. Press Esc to reach the Onboard
d. For Memclock Index Value
Device Configuration menu.
(MHz), select 400MHz.
e. For CAS# latency (Tcl), select 5T. 8. Select the Onboard Device
Configuration > USB Configuration
f. For Min Ras# active time (TRAS), menu.
select 5T.
a. For USB Controller, select
g. For RAS# to CAS# delay (Trcd), Disabled.
select 2T.
b. Press Esc to reach the Onboard
h. For Row precharge Time (Trp), Device Configuration menu.
select 2T.
c. For Onboard NV Lan, select
i. For 1T/2T Memory Timing, select Disabled.
1T.
d. For PCI IEEE 1394a, select
5. Press Esc twice to return to the main Disabled.
menu.
e. For Silicon SATA Controller, select
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f. For Serial Port1 Address, select 10. Select the Speech Configuration
Disabled. menu.
g. For Parallel Port Address, select a. For Speech IC Reporter, select
Disabled. Disable.
h. For Game Port Address, select 11. Press Esc twice to exit to the Main
Disabled. menu.
i. For Midi Port Address, select 12. Press F10 to Save and Exit.
Disabled.
13. Press Enter to select Yes.
9. Press Esc to reach the Advanced
menu.

Operating System Configuration

The following setup instructions apply to all processors. The operating system
should be installed on the platform using an NTFS partition. The default settings
should be used during the installation. The following system setup instructions
can be used to fully achieve optimal system performance.

Operating System Setup 10. Select WinXP NVIDIA Nforce

Storage Controller.
1. During the boot sequence, press Enter
to boot the system from the CD-ROM. 11. Press Enter to ®
continue the installation
of Windows XP PRO software.
2. Press F6 to install the drivers for serial
ATA. 12. Press F8 to agree to the license
agreement.
3. Press S to specify an additional device.
Note: If the drive is not yet formatted, or
4. Insert the floppy disk that containst the formatted with another operating
downloaded ATA drivers. system, steps 13 and 14 do not
Note: Leave the disk in the drive until the apply. Skip to step 15.
procedure asks you to reboot. The 13. Select ESC=Don’t Repair to install a
disk is needed during the initial fresh copy of Windows XP without
setup sequence. repairing.
5. Press Enter to continue. 14. Select D=Delete Partition to delete
6. Select WinXP NVIDIA Class Raid all existing partitions.
Driver and press Enter. Note: If there are no existing partitions,
7. Press S to specify an additional device. step 14 will not appear.
8. Select WinXP NVIDIA Nforce 15. Select C to create a partition.
Storage Controller. a. Enter 35000 as the partition size
9. Press S to specify and additional field for the first partition.
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b. Press the Down Arrow key until the 25. Click Ok to confirm display settings.
unpartitioned space is highlighted
26. Click Ok to confirm new monitor
and then press C to create this
settings.
partition.
27. Click Next to continue with Welcome
c. Press Enter to accept the default
to Microsoft® Windows®.
value. There will be 8 Mbytes of
unpartitioned space. 28. Click Skip to bypass Networking
Settings.
16. Select Format the partition using
the NTFS (Quick) file system. 29. Select No to bypass Activate
Windows and click Next.
17. Click Yes to verify installation of serial
all ATA drivers. 30. Type in your user name and click Next.
18. Click Next to continue with Regional 31. Click Finish.
and Language Options.
32. Open My Computer.
19. Type in your name and organization.
33. Right-click on drive D:.
20. Type in a valid Windows XP product key
34. Click Format.
and click Next.
35. Select Quick format.
21. Type the administrator password twice
and click Next. 36. Click Start.
22. Click Next on Date and Time 37. Click Ok to confirm format.
Settings. 38. Click Ok to acknowledge the message
23. Click Next on Networking Settings Format Complete.
to confirm Typical Settings. 39. Click Close.
24. Click Next on Workgroup and
Computer Domain.

Install Windows® XP Service Pack 2

1. Install Microsoft Windows XP Service 7. Close the balloon Your computer
Pack 2 Network Installation might be at risk in the Windows
self-extracting cabinet: security center window.
WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
8. Select Windows firewall under
2. Click Next to continue. manage security settings.
3. Select I agree and click Next. 9. Select Off and click Ok.
4. Click Next. 10. Select Change the way security
center alerts me, under Resources.
5. Click Finish to restart computer on the
Help Protect MY PC screen. 11. Deselect all the boxes on the dialog
box, and click OK.
6. Select Not right Now and click Next.
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13. Right-click on My Computer on the 30. Click System Restore and select Turn
Desktop. off System Restore on all drives.
14. Select Properties and click the 31. Click Apply.
Advanced tab.
32. Click Yes to verify Turn Off System
15. Select Performance Options. Restore.
16. Click Settings and click Advanced. 33. Right-click My Computer icon on the
desktop.
17. Click Change for Virtual Memory.
34. Select Properties and click the
18. Select drive C: and select No paging
Advanced tab.
file under Change virtual memory
(paging file). 35. Click Settings under Performance.
19. Click Set. 36. Select Adjust for best performance.
20. Select drive D 37. Click Apply.
21. Select Custom size. 38. Right-click the task bar and select
Properties.
22. Type 1536 MB for Initial Size.
39. Deselect Keep the taskbar on top of
23. Type 3072 MB for Maximum Size.
other Windows.
24. Click Set.
40. Click Apply.
25. Click Ok and restart computer.
41. Open the Control Panel and
26. Right-click My Computer on the double-click Power Options.
desktop.
42. Select Always On from Power
27. Select Properties and click Schemes and select Never to Turn
Automatic Updates. off monitor.
28. Select Turn off Automatic Updating. 43. Click Apply.
I want to update my computer
44. Right-click on the desktop and select
manually.
Properties.
29. Click Apply.
45. Click Screen Saver and select None.
46. Click Apply.

Install Asus A8n-SLI Deluxe Motherboard Drivers

1. Install the 6. Click Next.
Nforce_6.36_winxp2k_whql_english.exe
7. Click Next to install default
chipset drivers.
components.
2. Double-click the .exe file.
8. Click Next to install NVIDIA IDE SW.
3. Click Run to start the installation.
9. Click Yes to install NVIDIA IDE SW.
4. Click Yes to the antivirus window.
10. Click No to install NVIDIA Firewall.
5. Click Yes to agree to the license.
11. Click Finish to reboot the system.

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NVIDIA Video Card Setup

1. Download the video card driver from 13. Select the Settings tab.
the http://www.nvidia.com Web site.
14. Change color depth to 32-bit.
2. Install the driver:
15. Change the screen resolution to 1024
71.84_win2kxp_english.exe
by 768 pixels.
3. Click Yes to continue when asked if
16. Click Apply to implement settings.
antivirus software has been installed.
17. Click Yes to save settings.
4. Click Yes at the next window.
18. Select the Monitor tab and select
5. Select the button next to I accept the
85 Hz for Set Screen Refresh.
terms in the license agreement.
19. Select the GeForce FX 6800 Ultra
6. Click Next to accept the license
tab.
agreement terms.
20. Select OpenGL Settings under
7. Click Next to install the shield wizard.
Performance and Quality Settings.
8. Click Next to continue the setup.
21. Select Vertical Sync, and deselect
9. Click Yes to accept the license. Application Control.
10. Click Continue anyway on hardware 22. Do not change other OpenGL settings.
installation window.
23. Click OK.
11. Click Yes to restart the computer.
24. Click Yes to keep settings.
12. Right-click on the desktop and select
25. Click OK to close window.
the Properties sub-menu item.
Your operating system should now be configured properly.

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Benchmark Configuration and Testing

With a properly configured system, benchmarking can begin. Each installation
program is located on your install disk and is subject to the licensing terms
contained therein. Several benchmarks in this test suite are run with scripts
created at AMD. All scripts are available upon request. Send an email to
[email protected] with all requests for the scripts. A text version of the
scripts are included in an appendix.
The following procedures are recommended to achieve optimal and accurate
benchmark scores:

Office Productivity

BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 Internet Content Creation and Office

Productivity
Note: Results for both Internet Content 8. Click Next at the Select Program
Creation and Office Productivity are Folder screen.
generated during each run of the
9. Click Yes at the Question screen.
benchmark.
10. Click Finish at the Install Complete
1. Install the BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004
screen.
DVD.
2. Click Run on the Open File Security Install the Patch:
Warning dialog box.
1. Double-click on the patch:
3. Run the setup to install SYSmark 2004: Sysmark2004Patch2.exe
c:\sm2004src\setup.exe
2. Click RUN.
4. Click Next at the Welcome screen. 3. Click Yes to install the patch.
5. Read the license agreement at the 4. Click Finish.
Licence screen, and select I accept,
then click Next. Run the Benchmark:
6. Click Next at the Customer 1. Execute SYSmark 2004 from the
Information screen. Windows Start menu.
7. Click Next at the Destination Directory 2. Click Run.
screen.
3. Click Official Run.
4. Type project name and click Ok.

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Ziff Davis Media Inc. Business Winstone® 2004

1. Select Install in the directory where 6. Click Next.
Business Winstone is located.
7. Click Finish.
2. Click Run on the Open File Security
8. Copy the wsbp2004.wsr file to
Warning dialog box.
c:\PCMBench\BWS2004\TESTS\Busine
3. Click Business Winstone 2004. ss\appsetup.
4. Click Next at the Welcome screen.
Run the Benchmark:
5. Click Next at the Choose Destination
1. Execute Ziff Davis Media Inc.’s Content
Location screen.
Creation Winstone 2004 from the Start
6. Click Yes at the Confirm New Directory menu.
screen.
2. Read the licence and select Proceed,
7. Select Copy Multimedia Content then click Next.
Support Files on the Select New
3. Click Yes at the Registration screen.
Components screen, then click Next.
4. Select the clock icon next to the
8. Click Next at the Program Folders
1. Run item on the Functions dialog
screen.
screen.
9. Click Next at the Start Copying Files
5. Click Next to run System Configuration
screen.
Problem Analysis.
10. Click Finish at the Setup Complete
6. Click Next for Minimum Resource
screen.
Requirements.
11. Close the readme file.
7. Click Next for Other Requirements.
Install the Patch: 8. Click Next for Other Requirements.
1. Double-click on the patch to install: 9. Click Next for Other Requirements.
BWS0401up.exe.
10. Click Next for Content Creation
2. Click Run on the Open File Security Winstone Requirements.
Warning dialog box.
11. Click Finish for System Configuration
3. Click Yes. Problem.
4. Click Next. 12. Click Ok for Automated Defrag.
5. Click Yes.

Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Business Multitasking Winstone® 2004

1. If benchmark is not installed from 2. Select Install in the directory where
Veritest Business Winstone 2004 Business Winstone is located.
testing, proceed with the steps below.
3. Click Run on the Open File Security
If it is installed, proceed to “Run the
Warning dialog box.
Benchmark:” on page 32.
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5. Click Next at the Welcome screen. 8. Copy the wsbp2004.wsr file to:
c:\PCMBench\BWS2004\TESTS\Busine
6. Click Next at the Choose Destination
ss\appsetup.
Location screen.
7. Click Yes at the Confirm New Directory Run the Benchmark:
screen.
1. Execute Ziff Davis Media Inc.’s Content
8. Select Copy Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 from Start
Support Files on the Select New menu.
Components screen, then click Next.
2. Read the licence and select Proceed,
9. Click Next at the Program Folders then click Next.
screen.
3. Click Yes at the Registration screen.
10. Click Next at the Start Copying Files
4. Click in the pull down menu next to the
screen.
1. Run item and select Multitasking
11. Click Finish at the Setup Complete Test at the Function dialog box.
screen.
5. Select the clock icon next to the
12. Close the readme.txt file. 1. Run item on the Functions dialog
screen.
Install the Patch:
6. Click Next to run System Configuration
1. Double-click on the patch to install: Problem Analysis.
BWS0401up.exe.
7. Click Next for Minimum Resource
2. Click Run on the Open File Security Requirements.
Warning dialog box.
8. Click Next for Other Requirements.
3. Click Yes.
9. Click Next for Other Requirements.
4. Click Next.
10. Click Next for Other Requirements.
5. Click Yes.
11. Click Next for Content Creation
6. Click Next. Winstone Requirements.
7. Click Finish. 12. Click Finish for System Configuration
Problem.
13. Click Ok for Automated Defrag.

PCWorldBench
Note: This benchmark is not publicly available. It is used 6. Insert appropriate CDs when required.
only with the express permission of PCWorld.
7. Click Finish.
1. Insert CD1 into the hard drive.
8. Click Finish to reboot.
2. Click Next to Welcome note.
3. Click Yes at license window. Install the Patch:
4. Click Next destination location. 1. Right click on the file wb5-12aug04
and select Merge.
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2. Click Run on the Open File security Run PCworldbench:

warning dialog box. 1. Double click worldbenchtm 5 the
3. Click Yes to Are you sure? Real-World System Benchmark icon
4. Click OK to the registry editor window. 2. Enter the appropriate data in the
Vendor and Model edit box in the upper
Setup PCWorldBench right corner.
1. Double-click worldbench5 configuration 3. Enter system ID in system id box in the
utility. upper right corner.
2. Click Defaults. 4. Click Full run.
3. Click OK at updates to taskbar error. 5. Click OK to warning window.
4. Click Defaults. 6. Click OK to information window.
5. Click Finish in the window, and your 7. Enter administrator password if exists,
system will reboot. then click OK.
6. Click exit after reboot. 8. System will reboot, and the test will
run.

Remote Collaboration (Multi-Application Netmeeting + Windows® Media

Encode)
Note: This benchmark requires the setup of two machines. A crossover Ethernet cable long enough to connect both
computers is required for this test. Each additional piece of software must be installed before the script can execute
completely.
1. Label one machine Client and the other 15. Click Next to each question in the
Host. audio tuning wizard.
2. Steps 3 through 19 are to be peformed 16. Click Finish.
on the client machine.
17. Connect the crossover Ethernet cable
3. Setup the resolution on the machine. from the client to the server computer.
4. Right click on the desktop. 18. Click on the netmeeting on desktop.
5. Click on the display properties. 19. Select call from menu, select
automatically accept calls.
6. Select the settings tab.
20. Steps 21 through 55 are to be
7. Change resolution to 1280x1024.
peformed only on the server machine.
8. Click OK.
21. Select RUN from start menu.
9. Select RUN from start menu.
22. Type CONF.
10. Type CONF.
23. Click Next.
11. Click Next.
24. Enter the user information click Next.
12. Enter the user information click Next.
25. Select Do not list my name in directory.
13. Select Do not list my name in directory.
26. Select Local Area Network.
14. Select local area network, Click Next.

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27. Click Next to each question. 47. Double-click ppviewer.exe.

28. Click Finish. 48. Click Run at security.
49. Click Yes at install office PowerPoint
Install Moonlight Codec
view2003.
29. Double click moonlight user pro 1.0
50. Clock OK at completion.
prerelease.exe (demo version).
51. Double click on PowerPoint viewer from
30. Click Run at security error.
start menu, all programs.
31. Click Next at welcome screen.
52. Click Accept at license agreement.
32. Select Yes, I agree… then click next.
53. Click Cancel at the file open box.
33. Click Next on install location.
54. Close PowerPoint viewer application.
34. Click Next on program group window.
55. Copy the folder msoft_MEDIA_encode
35. Click Next at ready to install. from the AMD CD to c:\.
36. Unselect Run register, click Finish.
To Run Benchmark
37. Run Moonlight Component Manager
1. Open an explorer window.
from the Start menu for moonlight.
2. Navigate to:
38. Click Next.
c:\msoft_MEDIA_encode\netmeetingte
39. Click Finish. stfiles\wmeplusnm.
3. Edit the wmeplusnm.bat file to make
Install Windows® Media Encoder 9
sure the IP address (the first IP
40. Download from Microsoft: http:// address in the file) is the client system
www.microsoft.com/windows/ IP address.
windowsmedia/9series/encoder/
4. Double-click the netmeeting icon in the
default.aspx
server system.
41. Click Next at the welcome screen.
5. Enter the IP address of the client
42. Select I accept the user license. system.
43. Click Next twice. 6. Click Call.
44. Click Install. 7. Netmeeting should connect to the
client. If the connection fails, ensure
45. Click Finish.
that the IP addresses are correct on
both the host and the client, and that
Install Windows® PowerPoint
the cable is correctly connected.
viewer
8. Close Netmeeting on server.
46. Download the PowerPoint viewer from
Microsoft: 9. Double-click wmeplusnm.bat.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/
10. Results are located in
details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f
c:\msoft_MEDIA_encode\netmeetingte
24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en
stfiles\wmeplusnm\wmeout.csv.

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Travel Ready Scenario (Multi-Application Microsoft® Publisher + Nero

Recoder)

Install Nero Recorder 15. Select Run from my computer.

1. Purchase Nero Recoder from Nero 16. Click Next.
2. Install Nero recoder according to 17. Click Install.
manufacturers instructions.
18. Click Finish.
3. Copy from the AMD CD the clipart
19. Setup clipart manager.
folder to c:\.
20. From start menu select all programs,
4. Copy from the AMD CD the pubrecode
Microsoft office, Microsoft office tool,
folder to c:\.
select Microsoft clip organizer.
5. Copy from the AMD CD the
21. At the welcome screen click Now to
recodebench folder to c:\.
scan for files.
Install Microsoft® Publisher 22. From the main menu bar, select File >
1. Purchase Microsoft® Publisher from Add clips to organizer >
Microsoft. Automatically.

2. Install Microsoft® Publisher by 23. Click OK to add clips to organizer.

selecting the Microsoft Publisher option 24. Close the clipart application.
during the install routine for Microsoft®
25. Click Start > All programs >
Office Professional Edition 2003.
Microsoft Office > Microsoft
3. Enter the product key. Publisher 2003.
4. Click Next. 26. From the main menu, select file, then
5. Click Next at user information. click new.

6. Select I Accept License. 27. Click Website and email.

7. Select Custom Install. 28. Click email.

8. Unselect all applications except 29. Click on the first template under
Microsoft Publisher. newsletter.

9. Select Choose Advance 30. At Personal information screen. Select

Customization of Applications. never show this dialog and click OK
Ensure that Microsoft Publisher is 31. Close Microsoft Publisher.
selected for install.
10. On the next screen select Microsoft To Run Benchmark
Publisher. 1. Open an explorer window to
C:\pubrecode.
11. Select Run from my computer.
2. Double-click recodebench.bat.
12. Select Office shared features.
3. Obtain scores from the
13. Select Run from my computer.
c:\recodebench\result.csv.
14. Select Office tools.

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WinRAR
1. Install 11. Click Ok to default setup.
activePerl-5.8.6.811-mswin32-x86
12. Click Done to complete install.
2. Click Next to begin.
13. Double-click My computer and select
3. Choose I accept the terms in the the C:\ drive.
license agreement and click Next.
14. Click File menu, choose New folder
4. Click Next for default install. and create rartest.
5. Click Next on the privacy policy. 15. Copy rartestpl file from CD to new
folder.
6. Click Next to accept the default
options. 16. Copy NPRP2CDcontent, except for the
DIVX and VOB files to the new folder.
7. Click Install to continue.
8. Click Finish to complete install. To run the benchmark:
9. Double Click winrar342.exe . 1. Double-click the rartestpl file which
creates a directory with a text file with
10. Click Install to continue.
the test results.

Digital Media

Ziff Davis Media Inc.’s Content Creation Winstone® 2004

1. Select install in the directory where 9. Click Next at the Start Copying Files
Winstone is located. screen.
2. Click Run on the Open File Security 10. Click Next at the Welcome to Media
Warning dialog box. Encoder 9 Series setup screen.
3. Click Content Creation Winstone 11. Read the license agreement on the
2004. EULA screen, select I accept the
terms of this agreement, then click
4. Click Next at the Welcome screen.
Next.
5. Click Next at the Choose Destination
12. Click Next at the Installation Folder
Location screen.
screen.
6. Click Next at the Confirm New
13. Click Install at the Ready to Install
Directory screen.
screen.
7. Select Copy Multimedia Content
14. Click Finish at the Completing the
Creation Support Files on the Select
Windows Media Encoder 9 Series setup
New Components screen, then click
wizard screen.
Next.
15. Click OK at the Windows Media
8. Click Next at the Program Folders
Encoder 9 Installation Completed
screen.
Successfully screen.

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16. Click Finish at the Setup Complete 4. Select the clock icon next to the
screen. 1. Run item on the Functions dialog
screen.
17. Close the readme file.
5. Click Next to run System Configuration
Install the Patch: Problem Analysis.
1. Double-click on the patch to install: 6. Click Next for Minimum Resource
MCC0401up.exe. Requirements.
2. Click Run on the Open File Security 7. Click Next for each Other
Warning dialog box. Requirements question.
3. Click Yes. 8. Click Next for Content Creation
4. Click Next. Winstone Requirements.

5. Click Next. 9. Click Finish for System Configuration

Problem.
6. Click Yes.
10. Click Ok for Automated Defrag.
7. Click Next.
Note: Program will run until Adobe Premier
8. Click Next. tests for the first time.
9. Click Finish. 1. Click Change Settings at the Data
Execution Prevention screen.
Run the benchmark:
2. Check the box in the window.
1. Execute Ziff Davis Media Inc.’s Content
Creation Winstone 2004 from the Start 3. Click OK.
menu. 4. Click Close Message.
2. Read the licence agreement, and select 5. Click Don’t Send on the error report
Proceed, then click Next. screen.
3. Click Yes at the registration screen.

Dr. DivX
1. Double click DrDivX106.exe. 9. Copy austinmontauge-3minutes to
C:\program files\divx\dr.divx.
2. Click Run on the Open File security
warning dialog box.
To run the benchmark:
3. Click Next to Welcome note.
1. Double-click Dr. DivX on the desktop.
4. Choose I accept the terms in the
2. Click Continue with trial version.
license agreement and click Next.
3. Click Video file button.
5. Click Next to choose components.
4. Select austinmontauge-3minutes.
6. Click Install to select default location.
5. Click Next on select audio input.
7. Click Finish upon install.
6. On Choose output select next.
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7. Select Encode, then Start Timer on 8. When encode completes stop timer.
encode video.

Razor Lame Ver. 1.1.5

1. Install ezcddax6.exe to convert ripping 11. Choose the Pink Floyd folder.
CD to.wav format.
12. Copy folder from CD to desktop.
2. Click Run on the Open File security
13. Install lamewin32.
warning dialog box
14. Click I Agree to license agreement.
3. Click Next to continue ripping from
Easy CD-DA Extractor Setup. 15. Click Next to install LAME Mp3.
4. Click Next to install program into 16. Click Install to continue install.
default folder. 17. Clicks Close.
5. Click Finish. 18. Open RazorLAME shortcut on desktop.
6. Insert Pink Floyd - Wish You Were 19. Drag the Pink Floyd folder track items
Here Audio CD into drive. into RazorLAME 1.1.5.
7. Go to Start > Programs > Easy 20. Go to Edit menu, choose Lame
CD-DA Extractor 6 > Easy CD-DA Options.
Extractor.
21. Under General tab, increase Bit Rate to
8. Click Evaluate the Software. 192.
a. Select Device to Hitachi GD-2000
22. Under Advanced tab, change
1000 to reflect the CDROM is
Optimization to Quality.
installed on the computer.
23. Under VBR tab, select Enable
b. Select all tracks.
Variable BitRate and change Quality
c. Click Copy to continue. Number to 9.
d. In the dialog box, change output 24. Click Ok to close dialog box.
folder to C:\Pink Floyd.
e. Go to Integrated Formats tab; To run the benchmark:
choose .wav (standard) in the first 1. Click Encode to run benchmark.
drop down box.
Note: To view results, Go to View, Last log, and scroll down
f. Click Start Copying to copy files. to end of file. Before running a second run, delete all
files from the RazorLAME and re-copy prior to starting
9. Burn the raw files to another CD. run. There is no need to reset the options.
10. Input the burned CD into the computer.

Panorama Factory
1. Insert the Panorama Factory DVD. 3. Do not touch keyboard or mouse while
the demo runs.
2. At prompt type in 3 to run demo with
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4. When the window with the STEP-6 6. The benchmark time is shown next to
Save and Print your Panorama the Wizard text.
appears the benchmark is complete.
7. Exit the main Panorama window.
5. On the main window select Tools >
8. Click No on the save files window.
Timers from the main toolbar.

POV-Ray
1. Download POV-Ray version 3.6.1a from 6. Click Next at chose destination
http://www.povray.org/download/. location.
2. Double-click povwin36a.exe. 7. Click Next to backup and replace files.
3. Click Run on the Open File security 8. Click Next to select program manager
warning dialog box. groups.
4. Click Next to Welcome note. 9. Click Next at automatically check for
updates.
5. Select I agree to then license window
then click Next. 10. Click Next for start installation.
6. Click Next at chose destination 11. Click Next to supporting us.
location.
12. Click Next to post installment.
7. Click Next to backup and replace files.
13. Click Finish.
8. Click Next to select program manager
14. Click OK when render is complete.
groups.
15. Copy the povraybench folder from the
9. Click Next at automatically check for
CD to the desktop.
updates.
10. Click Next for start installation. Running the benchmark
11. Click Next to supporting us. 1. Double click the POV-Ray v 3.6 icon on
the desktop.
12. Click Next to post installment.
2. Click OK to the brag screen.
13. Click Finish.
3. De-Select Show tip tomorrow and click
14. Click OK when render is complete.
OK.
Patch for Multi-Threaded 4. Select File > Open from the main
menu.
1. Download POV-Ray version 3.7 (latest
version. 5. Select Desktop on the left menu bar.
2. Double click the povray37.exe file. 6. Select the povraybench folder.
3. Click Run on the Open File security 7. Select benchmark.
warning dialog box.
8. Select Render then Start render from
4. Click Next to Welcome note. the main menu bar.
5. Select I agree to then license window 9. The system begins to render the file.
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10. Select Don’t tell me again to the 12. Select the Messages tab to obtain the
render complete sound dialog box then score.
select OK.
13. Record the PPS (pixel per second )
11. Select Don’t tell me again to the no results from the line above the last line
output file dialog box then select OK. in the messages box.

MovieMaker
1. Copy everything from the moviemaker To Run Benchmark
directory on the AMD CD to 1. Run Movie_Maker_bmark32.exe.
c:\Temp\Movie_Maker on the local
system. 2. The Benchmark is completed when the
Results.csv file opens.

Sony Vegas
1. Purchase Sony Vegas. 10. Select Make Movie.
2. Install Sony Vegas per the installation 11. Select Save to Hard Drive.
instructions from the vendor.
12. Change the file path to:
3. Create a folder named c:\temp\vegas. C:\Temp\Vegas\Reef.avi.
4. Copy Reef_5min.mpg from AMD CD to 13. Select Next for the initial encode.
C:\Temp\Vegas.
14. Exit the program when encoding is
5. Copy Reef.vf from AMD CD to completed.
C:\Temp\Vegas\.
To Run Benchmark
6. Copy Vegas_Studio_timing.exe from
AMD CD to C:\Program 1. Open a CMD window and change
Files\Sony\Vegas Movie Studio 4.0. directory to C:\Program
Files\Sony\Vegas Movie Studio 4.0.
7. Double-click on the icon for Vegas
Studio. 2. Run Vegas_Studio_timing.exe.
8. Deselect the Show at Startup box on 3. Benchmark is completed when the
the Show Me How splash screen. Results.csv file opens.
9. Open the Reef.vf project from the File Note: If a negative number is displayed in the results file
then the benchmark will need to run again.
menu

Gaming

Futuremark Corporation 3DMark® 2003

1. Double-click 3Dmark2003® 3. Click Next to install 3Dmark2003®.
3dmark03_V360_installer.exe.
4. Click Yes to accept the license
2. Click Run on the Open File Security agreement.
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5. Click Next to install the default 9. Click Ok.

destination location.
10. Click Benchmark to launch the tests.
6. Click Next to start copying files.
Note: After each run, exit and restart the
7. Enter the registration code and click program.
Next.
8. Click Ok for registration code Run the Hardware Benchmark:
confirmation. 1. Execute 3Dmark2001 SE Pro.
9. Click Finish to complete installation. 2. Click Change in Display and CPU
Settings.
Run the Software Benchmark:
3. Ensure that Double Buffering is set
1. Execute 3Dmark2003. to Enabled.
2. Select Do not show this dialog 4. Select D3D Hardware T&L under
again > Close. Rendering Pipeline.
3. Click Change in Display and CPU 5. Click Ok.
Settings.
6. Click Change under Selected Test.
4. Select D3D Software T&L under
7. Select only the first four game tests
Rendering Pipeline.
under Game Performance.
5. Click Ok.
8. Deselect the remaining test.
6. Click Change under Selected Test.
9. Click Ok.
7. Select only the first four game tests
10. Click Benchmark to launch the tests.
under Game Performance.
8. Deselect the remaining test. Note: After each run, exit and restart the
program.

Futuremark Corporation 3Dmark® 2005

1. Execute 3DMark® 2005: 9. Click Finish to complete installation.
3dmark05_V120_installer.exe.
To run the software benchmark:
2. Click Run on the Open File security
warning dialog box. 1. Execute 3DMark05 from the desktop.
3. Click Next to install 3Dmark05. 2. Select Do not show this dialog
again at the tip of the day dialog and
4. Select I accept the terms of the
click Close.
license agreement and click Next.
3. Click Select under Tests.
5. Click Next to install to default
Destination Location. 4. Select Game Test and deselect the
CPU test.
6. Click Install.
5. Click Ok.
7. Enter the registration code.
6. Click Change under Settings.
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7. Click Force Software Vertex 2. Click Select under Tests.

Shaders box.
3. Select Game Test and deselect the
8. Click Ok. CPU test.
9. Click Run 3Dmark. 4. Click Ok. to the Shaders box.
5. Click Change under Settings.
Run the Hardware Benchmark:
6. Click Run 3Dmark.
1. Execute 3DMark05 from the desktop.

Crafty
1. Copy the Crafty files to the C:\ drive. 3. Open crafty.csv to obtain the scores.
2. Double-click craftybench.exe.

Doom 3
1. Place the Doom3 CD into the CD drive. 16. Click Yes to not install DirectX.
2. Click Run on the Open File security 17. Click Next to make sure we have the
warning dialog box. latest video drivers.
3. Click Next to Welcome note. 18. Click Finish.
4. Enter CD key click Ok. 19. Double-click the Doom3 Icon on desktop.
5. Click OK at valid KEY windows. 20. Click Options.
6. Click Next at welcome screen. 21. Click Systems.
7. Choose I accept the terms in the 22. Click screen size to set to 1024x768.
license agreement and click Next.
23. Click Apply changes.
8. Click Next on minimum system
24. Click OK to apply changes.
requirements.
25. Exit DOOM3.
9. Click Next at choose destination
location.
To Run Benchmark
10. Click Next at select program folders. 1. Double-click the DOOM3 icon on
11. Click Next to start copying files. desktop.
12. Insert appropriate CD when required. 2. Press CTRL+ALT+~ to enter console
mode.
13. Click Yes at create shortcut to
desktop. 3. Type timedemo demo1
14. Click No to register. 4. Note that the first score run is not
representative of subsequent runs.
15. Select No, I do not want to install
DirectX at this time and click Next. 5. Record score and click OK.

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Far Cry
1. Place Far Cry CD into the CD drive. 9. Click Next on start copying files.
2. Click Run on the Open File security 10. Click Finish.
warning dialog box.
11. Copy demo folders cooler and pier to
3. Click Next to Welcome window. c:\program files\ubisoft\crytek\far
cry\levels to replace the folders in the
4. Choose I accept the terms in the
directory.
license agreement and click Next.
12. Create one shortcut.
5. Click Next on destination location.
13. Copy the far cry shortcut on the
6. Click Next to select features.
desktop.
7. De-select install adobe acrobat reader
14. Rename the new far cry shortcut to far
then Click Next.
cry pier.
8. Click Next to start copying files.
15. Edit the shortcut command line to
9. Insert the CD's when required. read:
"C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Crytek\Far
10. Deselect View readme and Register Far
Cry then click Next. Cry\Bin32\FarCry.exe" -devmode
"#demo_num_runs=3" "#demo_quit=1"
11. Click Finish. "map pier" "demo cooler01".
12. Click No to install farcry xfire. 16. Double-click the far cry icon on
desktop.
Install the Patch for Far CRY
17. Click OK on far cry configuration tool.
1. Double click facry_v_1.3.exe.
18. Select Video options tab.
2. Click Run on the Open File security
warning dialog box. 19. Select Very high.

3. Click OK on choose setup language. 20. Click OK.

4. Click Next on welcome. 21. Exit game when it starts.

5. Choose I accept the terms in the Run the Benchmark

license agreement and click Next.
1. Double click the far cry pier shortcut.
6. Click Next on destination location.
2. Open folder c:\program
7. Click Next on select features. files\ubisoft\crytek\far cry\levels\pier.
8. Choose I accept the terms in the 3. Open pier.txt file to view results.
license agreement and click Next.

Half-Life 2
1. Purchase Half-Life 2. 3. Copy demo files from AMD CD
at_coast_05_rev7.dem and
2. Install according to manufacturers
at_prison_05_rev7.dem to c:\program
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files\\valve\steam\steamapps\“USERN 18. Change texture detail to High.

AME”\half-life 2\hl2.
19. Change filtering mode to anisotropic
Note: “USERNAME” is the name of the user that was 8x.
entered during game installation.
20. Change water detail to Reflect World.
4. Disconnect the network cable.
21. Change shader detail to High.
5. Double-click the Halflife 2 icon on the
desktop. 22. Change shadow detail to High.
6. Click Start in offline mode. 23. Change wait for vertical sync to
Disable.
7. Click Options.
24. Click OK.
8. Click Keyboard.
25. Click OK.
9. Click Advanced.
10. Select Enable developer content, To Run Benchmark
click OK. 1. Press shift + ~ to bring up the
11. Select the Video tab. console.
12. Change resolution to 1024x768. 2. Type timedemo at_coast_05_rev7.
13. Change display mode to Full screen. 3. Read score in FPS from bottom line of
console.
14. Change aspect ratio to Normal.
4. Type timedemo at_prison_05_rev7.
15. Click Advanced.
5. Read score in FPS from bottom line of
16. Change model detail to High.
console.
17. Change antialiasing mode to 4x.

Star Wars – Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (1024x768x32)

1. Click Install to install Jedi Knight II. 10. Click Continue to install.
2. Click Run on the Open File security 11. Click OK to continue.
warning dialog box.
12. Unzip assets2.pak3 found in
3. Click Next to install Jedi Knight II: Jedi \GameData\Base folder.
Outcast.
13. Extract the file jk2ffa.dm_15 to the
4. Click Yes to accept License Agreement. \Base\Demos folder and then rename
the demo to jk2ffa.dm_16.
5. Click Automatic installation.
14. Copy the renamed demo file to a new
6. Click Yes to confirm automatic
directory, Demos off of the path
installation.
c:\program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars
7. Click Exit installation. JK II Jedi Outcast\GameData\base.
8. Install patch Jkiiup104.exe. 15. Create shortcut to desktop for Jedi
9. Click Run on the Open File security Knight II Multi Player: c:\Program
Files\LucasArts\Star Wars JK II Jedi
warning dialog box
Outcast\GameData\jk2mp.exe.

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16. Right click Shortcut to jk2mp from 6. Click Close.

desktop and select Properties.
7. Click Don’t send on the error report
17. Type +set sv_cheats 1 at the end of screen.
the Target Location. For example,
8. Reboot.
Target Location should read:
c:\Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars 9. Double-click Shortcut to jk2mp.
JK II Jedi
10. Click Setup.
Outcast\GameData\jk2mp.exe +set
sv_cheats 1. 11. Click Video.
18. Click Ok to close shortcut. 12. Select 1024x768x32 for Video Mode
and 32-bit for Color Depth.
Run the Benchmark 13. Click Apply Changes.
1. Double-click Shortcut to jk2mp. 14. Click Yes to continue to Main Menu.
2. The first time the program is executed 15. Press Shift + ~.
a data execution prevention error will
occur. 16. Type timedemo 1.
3. In the Data Execution Prevention 17. Type demo jk2ffa.
dialog box, click Change settings. 18. Press Enter.
4. Click on the box in the window. 19. Press Shift + ~ and scroll up to see
5. Click OK. the score.

Pain Killer
1. Place Pain Killer CD into the CD drive. Install patch
2. Click Run on the Open File security 1. Double-click painkiller_161.exe.
warning dialog box. 2. Click Run on the Open File security
3. Click Next to Welcome window. warning dialog box.
4. Click yes on the license agreement. 3. Click Next on welcome.
5. Click Next destination location. 4. Click Yes to Software license
agreement.
6. Click next on program folders.
5. Click Next destination location.
7. Click next to install.
6. Click Close again.
8. Enter CD key press enter.
7. Double-click painkiller_162.exe.
9. Insert CD's as required.
8. Click Run on the Open File security
10. Select no to not install gamespy click
warning dialog box.
next.
9. Click Next on welcome.
11. Deselect install DirectX 9.0b
10. Click Yes to Software license
12. Click Close.
agreement.
11. Click Next destination location.

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12. Click CLOSE to finish. 17. Click Next destination location.

13. Double-click 18. Click Close to finish.
painkillerpatch1.64updatefrom1.62wit
hreadme.exe. To run benchmark
14. Click Run on the Open File security 1. Double click launch painkiller shortcut.
warning dialog box. 2. Press Shift + ~.
15. Click Next on welcome. 3. Type benchmark c5L2.
16. Click Yes to Software license
agreement.

Quake III Demo2 (1024x768x32)

1. Install Quake III: Q3Ademo.exe. 6. Click Don’t Send on the Error Report
screen.
2. Click Run on the Open File Security
Warning dialog box. 7. Reboot the system.
3. Click Next to install the Quake 3 Arena 8. Execute Quake3 from Start menu.
Demo.
9. Click Setup.
4. Click Yes to accept the license
10. Click System.
agreement.
11. Click Video Mode to select
5. Click Next twice to install the default
1024x768.
destination location.
12. Click Color Depth to select 32 Bit.
6. Click Close to complete the setup.
13. Click Accept.
Run the Benchmark: 14. Press Shift+~ for the console
1. Execute Quake3 from the start menu. command view.
Note: A data execution prevention error 15. Type the following commands to
occurs the first time the program is configure and run the demo:
executed. s_initsound 0
snd_restart
2. Click Change Settings at the Data Press Shift+~
Execution Prevention Screen. com_maxfps 0
3. Select the box in the window. vid_restart
Press Shift+~
4. Click OK. timedemo 1
demo demo002
5. Click Close Message.
16. Press Enter to launch the demo.
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory(1024x768x32

1. Double Click woldet.exe 19. Click Ok to continue installation.
2. Click Install and click Next to install 20. Click Finish to complete installation.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein Enemy
21. Create a directory called demos in the
Territory.
c:\Program Files\Wolfenstien Enemy
3. Click Next on the Welcome screen. territory\ETMain\Demos and copy
ACE2.dm_83 to that directory.
4. Select I Agree to accept the License
Agreement. 22. Execute Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
from the desktop.
5. Click Next for Minimum System
Requirements. 23. At create profile window, click
connection and select lan/cable/
6. Click Next to Punkbuster.
dsl.
7. Click Yes to agree to the software
24. Enter a name for the player alias.
license agreement.
25. Click Create.
8. Click Next to install to default
Destination Location. 26. Click Options, System.
9. Click Next to install to default Program 27. Select Video quality to change to high.
Folder.
28. Click Apply.
10. Click Install to start the installation.
29. Click Yes.
11. Click Yes to create shortcut on
30. At Confirm Video Changes, click Yes.
desktop.
31. Click Options > View.
12. Click Finish to complete setup.
32. Select the following options:
13. Double-click the install patch: et
patch_2_60.exe. a. Click Mission timer to select Off.
14. Click Run on the open file security b. Reinforcement timer Off.
warning dialog box. c. Cursor Hint Off.
15. Click Next to install Patch. d. Crosshair pulsing No.
16. Click I agree to accept License e. Ejecting Brass High.
Agreement. f. Corona distance Extreme.
17. Click Next to install to default g. Wall mark lifetime Long.
Destination Location.
33. Select Back.
18. Click Install to Start Installation.
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To run the benchmark: 3. Type Timedemo 1.

1. Execute Wolfenstein Enemy Territory 4. Type Demo ACE2.
from the desktop.
5. Press Shift + ~ to view the demo
2. Press Shift + ~ to open the console. results.

Splinter Cell
1. Install Splinter Cell from CD. 14. Double click to install patch
scus_CA_Patch_1.2B (version
2. Click Run on the Open File security
7.1.100.124.8).
warning dialog box
15. Click Ok to finish patch completion.
3. Click Next to continue.
16. Go to C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Splinter
4. Click No to update current version of
Cell\System\sclow.bat.
DX9.0.
17. Right click sclow.bat and select Edit.
5. Click Next to accept license
agreement. 18. The source to the batch file is included
in the appendix.
6. Click Next to continue.
7. Click Next to continue. To run the benchmark:
8. Click Next to continue. 1. Create a shortcut to the batch files
stored in the directory noted above.
9. Insert Disc 2 and click OK.
2. Input Splinter Cell CD3 into drive.
10. Insert Disc 3 and click OK.
3. Double-click the Splinter Cell file on the
11. Click Next to continue.
desktop.
12. Chose Never Register and Click
4. Open the folder c:\program files\ubi
Cancel.
soft\splinter cell\system.
13. Click Finish.
5. Open the file timedemoresults.xls to
view results.

Unreal Tournament 2004

1. Place the Unreal Tournament 2004 CD 7. Click Next at the components to install
into the CD drive. screen.
2. Click Run on the Open File security 8. Click Install.
warning dialog box.
9. Click Finish.
3. Select English at the language select
dialog box and click Next. Install the Patch
4. Click I agree at the license screen. 1. Click on ut204-winpatch3355.exe
located on the CD.
5. Enter the CD-key click Next.
2. Click Next.
6. Click Next at the destination location
screen. 3. Click I agree at the license screen.

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4. Click Next at the destination location and botmatchexec.txt from the AMD
screen. CD to c:\ut2004\benchmark\stuff.
5. Click Install.
To Run Benchmark
6. Click Finish.
1. Double-click bench2k4.exe from the
7. Copy bench2k4.exe from the AMD CD to folder c:\ut2004\system.
c:\ut2004\system.
2. Select 1024x768
8. Copy maxdetail.ini,
3. Click Start.
maxdetailuser.ini, flybyexec.txt,

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AMD's Results
Using the system configuration described in Table 3 on page 23, Table 1 on
page 22, and Table 4 on page 24, and the benchmark configuration and testing
methods recommended on page 30, AMD’s results are presented in the following
graphs. Contact AMD if you have any questions about the performance of any
AMD microprocessor.

Figure 4. AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-57 Processor Overall

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Table 6. Productivity Overall

Processor Result
1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 100.0%
1
AMD Athlon 64 4800+ 121.8%
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 111.0%
Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz
101.1%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
edition 3.73 GHz 102.8%
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

® ®
Table 7. BAPCO SYSmark 2004
Productivity (ver. 1.0 patch 2)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 214.3 100.0%
1
AMD Athlon 64 4800+ 239.3 111.7%
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 233.0 108.7%
Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 219.0 102.2%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
224.0 104.5%
edition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance

amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 8. Ziff Davis Media Inc.’s Business

® 2004 v1.011
Winstone

Processor Score Result

AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+1 30.4 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 31.7 104.2%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 33.7 111.0%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 27.5 90.4%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
27.9 91.8%
edition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance

amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

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Lionbridge Technologies Inc. (VeriTest) nor Ziff Davis Media Inc. and that neither Ziff Davis
Media Inc. nor VeriTest make any representations or warranties as to the results of the tests.
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Table 9. Ziff Davis Media Inc.’s Business
®
Winstone 2004 Multitasking1

Processor Score Result

AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+1 3.3 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 4.3 129.4%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 3.7 110.1%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 3.6 106.4%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
3.6 107.5%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 10. WinRAR Overall

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 27.0 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 26.7 101.4%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 24.1 112.2%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 31.6 85.6%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
29.2 92.6%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 11. PC World Magazine

Worldbench™ 5 (May 10, 2004
with SP2 Reg Edit)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 108.0 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 116.0 107.4%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 117.0 108.3%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 102.3 94.8%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
103.0 95.4%
edition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance

amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

1
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Lionbridge Technologies Inc. (VeriTest) nor Ziff Davis Media Inc. and that neither Ziff Davis
Media Inc. nor VeriTest make any representations or warranties as to the results of the tests.
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Table 12. Remote Collaboration

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 1310.0 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 690.0 189.9%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 1118.7 117.1%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 1081.0 121.2%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
1086.0 120.6%
edition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance

amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 13. Travel Ready

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 295.5 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 230.5 128.2%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 270.0 109.4%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 265.0 111.5%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
267.0 110.7%
edition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance

amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

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Table 14. Digital Media Overall

Processor Result
1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 100.0%
1
AMD Athlon 64 4800+ 134.2%
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 114.0%
Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz
105.6%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
edition 3.73 GHz 105.1%
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

® ®
Table 15. BAPCO SYSmark 2004
Internet Content Creation

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 230.7 100.0%
1
AMD Athlon 64 4800+ 342.0 148.3%
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 264.0 114.5%
Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 258.7 112.1%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
258.3 112.0%
edition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance

amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

®
Table 16. Content Creation Winstone
2004 v1.0

Processor Score Result

AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+1 38.8 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 46.1 118.6%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 43.6 112.4%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 37.1 95.4%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
36.9 95.0%
edition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance

amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

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Table 17. Dr. DivX (Version 1.0.6)2

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 409.7 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 271.3 151.0%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 356.0 115.1%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 447.3 91.6%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
449.7 91.1%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 18. RazorLAME MP3 Encoder

(version 1.1.5.1342)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 238.0 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 238.3 99.9%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 204.0 116.7%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 246.0 96.7%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
251.0 94.8%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 19. Panorama Factory (version 3.3)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 126.5 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 123.3 102.6%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 110.2 114.9%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 128.2 98.7%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
128.7 98.3%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

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no representation or warranty as to the results of the tests.
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Table 20. POV-Ray (version 3.7.4)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 21998.2 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 34757.1 158.0%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 24656.0 112.1%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 25065.7 113.9%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
24125.8 109.7%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 21. Sony Vegas Studio (version 4.0)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 163.0 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 87.7 185.9%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 146.7 111.1%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 131.7 123.8%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
127.7 127.7%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 22. Microsoft® Movie Maker

(version 5.1)

Processor Score Result

AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+1 169.7 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 129.0 131.5%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 147.3 115.2%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 144.7 117.3%

Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
144.3 117.6%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

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Table 23. Computer Gaming Overall

Processor Result
1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 100.0%
1
AMD Athlon 64 4800+ 107.4%
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 110.2%
Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz
85.7%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
edition 3.73 GHz 88.8%
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 24. Futuremark Corporation

®
3DMark 2003 (Hardware)
(Patch 340)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 13405.0 100.0%
1
AMD Athlon 64 4800+ 13456.7 100.4%
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 13748.0 102.6%
Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 13415.0 100.1%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
13615.0 101.6%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 25. Futuremark Corporation

®
3DMark 2003 (Software)
(Patch 340)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 3666.7 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 4203.7 114.6%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 4105.3 112.0%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 3244.7 88.5%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
3389.7 92.4%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

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Table 26. Futuremark Corporation
®
3DMark 2005 (Hardware T&L)

Processor Score Result

AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+1 5727.0 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 5745.0 100.3%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 5764.3 100.7%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 5712.3 99.7%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
5735.3 100.1%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 27. Futuremark Corporation

®
3DMark 2005 (Software T&L)

Processor Score Result

AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+1 1107.7 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 1470.7 132.8%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 1244.7 112.4%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 996.7 90.0%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
1034.0 93.3%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 28. Half-Life 2 (version 1.1.0 using

at_coast_05_rev7.dem)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 120.4 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 121.0 100.6%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 131.8 109.5%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 93.8 78.0%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
97.8 81.3%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

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Table 29. Half-Life 2 (version 1.1.0 using

at_prison_05_rev7.dem)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 129.7 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 131.4 101.3%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 135.7 104.7%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 102.4 78.9%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
107.5 82.9%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 30. Jedi Knights II Demo

(Patched to 1.04)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 218.7 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 219.0 100.2%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 245.8 112.4%

Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 201.0 91.9%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
207.6 94.9%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance
amo ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 31. QuakeIII Arena Demo2 (version

1.11)

P rocessor S core Result

1
AMD Ath lo n ™ 6 4 4 0 0 0 + 4 7 5 .1 1 0 0 .0 %
1
AMD Ath lo n 6 4 4 8 0 0 + 4 7 5 .1 1 0 0 .0 %
AMD Ath lo n 6 4 FX-5 7 5 3 1 .6 1 1 1 .9 %
In te l P e n tiu m 4 3 .8 GHz 4 4 5 .3 9 3 .7 %
In te l P e n tiu m 4 E xtre me
5 0 0 .0 1 0 5 .2 %
e d itio n 3 .7 3 GHz
1T hism o del num ber indic ates relativ e s o ftware perfo rm anc e
am o ng A M D pro c es s o rs in a 32-bit env iro nm ent.

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Table 32. Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Enemy Territory (version 2.60)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 94.0 100.0%
1
AMD Athlon 64 4800+ 94.2 100.2%
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 106.5 113.2%
Inte l Pe ntium 4 3.8 GHz 87.7 93.3%
Inte l P e ntium 4 Extre me
87.6 93.1%
e dition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del num ber indicates relative so ftware perfo rm ance

am o ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 33. Unreal Tournament 2003 Flyby

(version 3355)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 366.4 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 372.4 101.6%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 414.8 113.2%

Inte l Pe ntium 4 3.8 GHz 304.2 83.0%
Inte l P e ntium 4 Extre me
326.9 89.2%
e dition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del num ber indicates relative so ftware perfo rm ance

am o ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 34. Unreal Tournament 2003

Botmatch (version 3355)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 142.1 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 142.6 100.3%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 160.9 113.2%

Inte l Pe ntium 4 3.8 GHz 112.5 79.1%
Inte l P e ntium 4 Extre me
115.7 81.4%
e dition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del num ber indicates relative so ftware perfo rm ance

am o ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

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Table 35. Splinter Cell (1_1_1) (version

1.2b)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 114.7 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 114.7 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 126.7 110.5%

Inte l Pe ntium 4 3.8 GHz 87.4 76.2%
Inte l P e ntium 4 Extre me
91.1 79.5%
e dition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del num ber indicates relative so ftware perfo rm ance

am o ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 36. Splinter Cell (1_1_2) (version

1.2b)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 106.0 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 106.6 100.6%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 118.3 111.6%

Inte l Pe ntium 4 3.8 GHz 83.5 78.8%
Inte l P e ntium 4 Extre me
87.2 82.3%
e dition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del num ber indicates relative so ftware perfo rm ance

am o ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 37. FarCry (version 1.3.1)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 90.0 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 91.6 101.8%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 100.0 111.2%

Inte l Pe ntium 4 3.8 GHz 74.9 83.3%
Inte l P e ntium 4 Extre me
77.6 86.3%
e dition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del num ber indicates relative so ftware perfo rm ance

am o ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

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Table 38. Painkiller (version 1.64)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 142.8 100.0%

AMD Athlon 64 4800+1 143.1 100.2%

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 161.2 112.9%

Inte l Pe ntium 4 3.8 GHz 117.3 82.2%
Inte l P e ntium 4 Extre me
119.6 83.8%
e dition 3.73 GHz
1This mo del num ber indicates relative so ftware perfo rm ance

am o ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 39. Crafty (Version 19.19)

Processor Score Result

1
AMD Athlon™ 64 4000+ 1670528.0 100.0%
1
AMD Athlon 64 4800+ 3428061.0 205.2%
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 1958791.0 117.3%
Intel Pentium 4 3.8 GHz 1335650.0 80.0%
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme
1307641.7 78.3%
edition 3.73 GHz
1Thismo del number indicates relative so ftware perfo rmance amo ng
A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nment.

Table 40. Doom3 (Version 1.1)

Processor Score Result

AMD Athlo n™ 64 4000+1 113.4 100.0%

AMD Athlo n 64 4800+1 113.5 100.1%

AMD Athlo n 64 FX-57 119.9 105.7%

Inte l P e ntium 4 3.8 GHz 97.3 85.8%

Inte l P e ntium 4 Extre me
101.9 89.8%
e ditio n 3.73 GHz
1T his m o del num ber indicates relative so ftware perfo rm ance

am o ng A M D pro cesso rs in a 32-bit enviro nm ent.

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Appendix A Scripts

This chapter lists the contents of the various batch files AMD used to run
benchmark tests.

Spinter Cell Batch File Content

Below is the contents of the splintercell.bat batch file.
splintercell.exe 1_1_1Tbilisi.scl PLAYTIMEDEMO=1_1_1TbilisiDemo.bin -NOSOUND
RESOLUTION=1024X768 SHADOWLEVEL=LOW SHADOWRESOLUTION=LOW EFFECTSQUALITY=LOW
SHADOWMODE=PROJECTOR
splintercell.exe 1_1_1Tbilisi.scl PLAYTIMEDEMO=1_1_1TbilisiDemo.bin -NOSOUND
RESOLUTION=1024X768 SHADOWLEVEL=LOW SHADOWRESOLUTION=LOW EFFECTSQUALITY=LOW
SHADOWMODE=PROJECTOR
splintercell.exe 1_1_1Tbilisi.scl PLAYTIMEDEMO=1_1_1TbilisiDemo.bin -NOSOUND
RESOLUTION=1024X768 SHADOWLEVEL=LOW SHADOWRESOLUTION=LOW EFFECTSQUALITY=LOW
SHADOWMODE=PROJECTOR
splintercell.exe 1_1_2Tbilisi.scl PLAYTIMEDEMO=1_1_2TbilisiDemo.bin -NOSOUND
RESOLUTION=1024X768 SHADOWLEVEL=LOW SHADOWRESOLUTION=LOW EFFECTSQUALITY=LOW
SHADOWMODE=PROJECTOR
splintercell.exe 1_1_2Tbilisi.scl PLAYTIMEDEMO=1_1_2TbilisiDemo.bin -NOSOUND
RESOLUTION=1024X768 SHADOWLEVEL=LOW SHADOWRESOLUTION=LOW EFFECTSQUALITY=LOW
SHADOWMODE=PROJECTOR
splintercell.exe 1_1_2Tbilisi.scl PLAYTIMEDEMO=1_1_2TbilisiDemo.bin -NOSOUND
RESOLUTION=1024X768 SHADOWLEVEL=LOW SHADOWRESOLUTION=LOW EFFECTSQUALITY=LOW
SHADOWMODE=PROJECTOR

MovieMaker
Below is the source to the Moviemaker PERL script file.
use Win32::GuiTest qw( :FUNC );
use Getopt::Long;
use File::stat;
use Time::localtime;
use Cwd;
my $dir = getcwd;
$dir =~ s/\//\\/g;
###Creating results.csv file
open (INPUT, ">results.csv") || die "Could not open file results.csv : $!\n";
open (OUTPUT, ">>results.csv") || die "Could not open file results.csv : $!\n";
while (<INPUT>)
{
chop;
}
print OUTPUT "Total encode time\n \n";

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close (INPUT);
close (OUTPUT);
#get number of test loops
$| = 1;
#print "Please enter how many times you want the test to loop: ";
#$Input = 3;
chop $Input;
print "\nTest will loop 3 times.\n";
for ($x=0; $x< 3; $x++)
{
#Deleting the old files
#Check to see if the file exsists
if (-e "$dir\\demo.wmv")
{
#Delete the file
if (unlink "$dir\\demo.wmv")
{
print "The video file has been deleted.\n";
}
else
{
print "The video file was not deleted: $!\n";
}
}
else
{
print "The video file does not exist.\n";
}
#Starting Vegas Studio
my $Title = "demo32 - Windows Movie Maker";
my $Title2 = "Save Movie Wizard";
my $Title3 = "Progress1";
print "\nWindows Movie Maker Demo\n";
system ("start $dir\\demo32.MSWMM");
sleep 2;
WaitWindowLike (0, $Title, 0, 0, 0, 60);
sleep 0.50;
SendKeys ("%f");
SendKeys ("m");
sleep 1;
$hWnd = WaitWindowLike (0, $Title2, 0, 0, 0, 60);
PushChildButton ($hWnd, "&Next >") or die;
sleep 0.50;
SendKeys ("demo");
PushChildButton ($hWnd, "B&rowse...") or die;
sleep 0.50;
SendKeys ('{TAB 3}');
SendKeys ($dir);
SendKeys ('{ENTER}');
sleep 0.50;
PushChildButton ($hWnd, "&Next >") or die;

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sleep 0.50;
PushChildButton ($hWnd, "&Next >") or die;
#Start of the Encoding Process
WaitWindowLike (0, $Title3, 0, 0, 0, 60);
$startTime = ((localtime->min() * 60) + localtime->sec());
print "Encoding file \n";
######Timing the encoding process######
sleep 10;
$i = 0;

$file = "$dir\\demo.wmv";
$lastTime = ctime(stat($file)->mtime);
$currentTime = $lastTime;
while ($i == 0)
{
sleep 1;
if ($lastTime eq $currentTime)
{
$lastTime = $currentTime;

$currentTime = ctime(stat($file)->mtime);
}
else
{
$i = 1;
}
}
###Calculating Encode time###
$finishTime = ((localtime->min() * 60) + localtime->sec());
$deltaTime = $finishTime - $startTime;
print ("\nTotal encode time is $deltaTime.\n");

{
#Print the results to results.csv
open (OUTPUT, ">>results.csv") || die "Could not open file results.csv : $!\n";
while (<INPUT>)
{
chop;
}
print OUTPUT "$deltaTime, seconds\n";
close (OUTPUT);
close (INPUT);
}
sleep 0.50;
###Closing Movie Maker
$hWnd = WaitWindowLike (0, $Title2, 0, 0, 0, 60);
PushChildButton ($hWnd, "Cancel") or die;
sleep 0.50;
SendKeys ('%{F4}');
sleep 2;

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}
##Opening Results.txt in notepad
system ("start notepad results.csv");
##Playing Video
#system ("start c:\\temp\\Movie_Maker\\demo.wmv");

Sony Vegas
Below is the source to the Sony Vegas PERL script file.
use Win32::GuiTest qw(SendKeys);
use Getopt::Long;
use File::stat;
use Time::localtime;
###Creating results.csv file
open (INPUT, ">results.csv") || die "Could not open file results.csv : $!\n";
open (OUTPUT, ">>results.csv") || die "Could not open file results.csv : $!\n";
while (<INPUT>)
{
chop;
}
print OUTPUT "Total encode time\n \n";
close (INPUT);
close (OUTPUT);
#get number of test loops
$| = 1;
#print "Please enter how many times you want the test to loop: ";
#$Input = 3;
chop $Input;
print "Test will loop $Input times.\n";

for ($x=0; $x< 3; $x++)

{
#Deleting the old files
#Check to see if the file exsists
if (-e "c:\\Temp\\Vegas\\Reef.avi")
{
#Delete the file
if (unlink "c:\\Temp\\Vegas\\Reef.avi")
{
print "The video file has been deleted.\n";
}
else
{
print "The video file was not deleted: $!\n";
}
}
else
{
print "The video file does not exist.\n";

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}
#Starting Vegas Studio
system ("start moviest40.exe");
print "Starting Vegas \n";
sleep 8;
SendKeys ("%f");
print "Opening File Menu \n";
sleep 1;
SendKeys ("o");
print "Opening Project \n";
sleep 1;
SendKeys ("c:\\Temp\\Vegas\\Reef.vf");
SendKeys ("{ENTER}");
print "Loading Project \n";
sleep 3;
#Creating video file
SendKeys ("%f");
print "Opening Menu 2nd time \n";
SendKeys ('k');
print "Making Movie \n";
SendKeys ('{TAB}');
SendKeys ('{ENTER}');
sleep 1;
SendKeys ('c:\\Temp\\Vegas\\Reef.avi');
print "Chosing save location and file name \n";

#Start of the Encoding Process

SendKeys ('{ENTER}');
$startTime = ((localtime->min() * 60) + localtime->sec());
print "Encoding file \n";
######Timing the encoding process######
$i = 0;
$file = "c:\\Temp\\Vegas\\Reef.avi";
$lastTime = ctime(stat($file)->mtime);
$currentTime = $lastTime;
while ($i == 0)
{
sleep .2;
if ($lastTime eq $currentTime)
{
$lastTime = $currentTime;
$currentTime = ctime(stat($file)->mtime);
}
else
{
$i = 1;
}
}
###Calculating Encode time###
$finishTime = ((localtime->min() * 60) + localtime->sec());
$deltaTime = $finishTime - $startTime;

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print ("Total encode time is $deltaTime.\n");

{
#Print the results to results.csv
open (OUTPUT, ">>results.csv") || die "Could not open file results.csv : $!\n";
while (<INPUT>)
{
chop;
}
print OUTPUT "$deltaTime, seconds\n";
close (OUTPUT);
close (INPUT);
}
sleep 3;
###Closing Vegas
SendKeys ('{TAB}');
SendKeys ('{TAB}');
SendKeys ('{TAB}');
SendKeys ('{ENTER}');
sleep 1;
SendKeys ('%{F4}');
sleep 1;

}
###Opening Results.txt in notepad
system ("start notepad results.csv");

Travel Ready Scenario

Below is the source to the Microsoft® Publisher + Nero batch file.
@echo off
rem -- Run RecodeBench --
set LOOPCNT=5
set RESULTFILE=result.csv
set BENCH=.\DualCore1.exe
REM set BENCH=perl DualCore1.pl
set TMPRESULT=.\iResult.tmp
set INTERIM=.\interim.exe
set RECODESRC=C:\RecodeBench
set RECODETGT=C:\NeroRecode
if "%1"=="" goto useloopdefault
set LOOPCNT=%1
:useloopdefault
if "%2"=="" goto useresultdefault
set RESULTFILE=%2
:useresultdefault
if exist "%BENCH%" goto readytostart
echo Bechmark Program "%BENCH%" not found
goto end
:readytostart
del %TMPRESULT%
for /L %%I in (1,1,%LOOPCNT%) do cmd /c %BENCH% %TMPRESULT% %%I

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REM for /L %%I in (1,1,%LOOPCNT%) do echo Execute %RESULTFILE%

cmd /c %INTERIM% %RESULTFILE% <%TMPRESULT%
goto end
:usage
echo recodeBench <runCount> <resultFile>
:end
if EXIST %TMPRESULT% del %TMPRESULT%

Remote Collaboration
This is the Perl script source for the Netmeeting, media encoder, PowerPoint viewer
tests.

#File WMEncoder.pl
#File version 1.0
use Env;
use Win32::GuiTest qw( :FUNC :VK );

$Win32::GuiTest::debug = 0;
my $Verbose = 0;

use strict;

=head1 NAME

File name Wme+NM.pl. app name Wme+NM.exe

=head1 SYNOPSIS

Starts WMEncoder script and NM script to run concurrently.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This little application runs starts WMEncoder script and NM script to run
concurrently.
These two scripts knows how to synch to each. Synching is forced by using using
"mixmode" parameter and a shared semaphore.
Task of this app is to act like (or better then) a batch file that starts to
apps with params from different folders
and finishes when they all done.
Paths to child scripts are passed as command line parameters!

=head2 Important Notes

perl v5.8.4 for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (activestate.com)

=head1 AUTHOR

Boris Chernis, AMD

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=head1 Requirements

No special requirements, as long as requirements for NetMeeting script and

WindowsMediaEncoder script are met.

=head1 TODO ("+" means done)

=head1 Would be nice ("+" means done)

Would be nice:
Optional redirection of the console output of each child script
Pass all the parameters in a cnf file whose name is passed as a single param
Same as above with an ability to override a value from cnf file by a value from
command line
Verify target IP.

=head1 Notes

TBD = To Be Designed. Search for "TBD" in the code.

=head1 Usage

Run with no parameters shows Usage and Examples.

=cut
=head1 Comamand line parameters
Counting from 0:
0 Path to NetMeeting script or app. Format: string. Backslashes needs to be
doubled up or replaced by forward slashes.
1 Target IP
2 Path to Windows Media Encoder Script
3 Video clip (like MPEG-2 movie) for Windows Media Encoder to re-code
=cut

main{
my $AppName = "Wme+NM";
print "Entering $AppName Benchmark Test program\n";

my $Usage = "\nUsage:\n" .
"Wme+NM.exe PathToNM_Script TargetIP PathToWme_Script
VideoClipFileName\n";

my $Examples = "\nExamples:\n" .
"Relative paths:\n" .
"Wme+NM.exe ../../NetMeeting/Script/ 163.181.237.220 ../../
WMEncoder/Script/ ../../Movies/NewOrlea1941.mpeg\n" .
"Absolute paths:\n" .
"Wme+NM.exe d:\\Benchmarks\\NetMeeting\\ 163.181.237.220
d:\\Benchmarks\\WMEncoder\\ d:/movies/MPEG-2_Movies/NewOrlea1941.mpeg\n" .

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"Current directory:\n" .
"Wme+NM.exe ./ 163.181.237.220 ./ ./NewOrlea1941.mpeg\n" ;

if(@ARGV == 0){
print $Usage;
print $Examples;
print "Exiting $AppName...\n";
exit;
}

#Debugging Flags
my $bRunNM = 1;
my $bRunWME = 1;
my $mixmode = "mixmode"; # "" to avoid synch om semafore, "mixmode" for synch.
my $EXEorPL = ".exe"; # ".pl" for scripts, ".exe" or "" for executables.

#Pre-defined values of parameters

my $pathNM = "../../NetMeeting/Script/";
my $TargetIP = "163.181.237.220";

my $pathWme = "../../WMEncoder/Script/";
my $FileToRecode = "./NewOrlea1941.mpeg"; # has to be full path

# Parsing parameters

$pathNM = $ARGV[0] if(defined $ARGV[0]);

die "Error: Path for NM script $pathNM does not exist, exiting $AppName\n"
unless(-e $pathNM);

$TargetIP = $ARGV[1] if(defined $ARGV[1]);

print "TBD: Skipping verification of target IP\n";

$pathWme = $ARGV[2] if(defined $ARGV[2]);

die "Error: Path for WindowsMediaEncoder-9 script $pathWme does not exist,
exiting $AppName\n" unless(-e $pathWme);

$FileToRecode = $ARGV[3] if(defined $ARGV[3]);

die "Error: File $FileToRecode to recode does not exist, exiting $AppName\n"
unless(-e $FileToRecode);

my $pid_NM = fork;
#Following is forked, shared code till (including) unless statement
#print "pid = $pid_NM\n";
unless($pid_NM)
{
#NetMeeting process, go to its directory
chdir $pathNM;
#my $ClildCMD = "nm_msng.pl 163.181.237.220 10 $mixmode";
#my $ClildCMD = "nm_msng" . $EXEorPL . " " . $TargetIP . " 10 " . $mixmode;
my $ClildCMD = "nm_msng" . $EXEorPL . " " . $TargetIP . " 0 " . $mixmode;
print "ClildCMD = $ClildCMD\n";

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if($bRunNM){
system($ClildCMD) or die "Failed launch $ClildCMD";
}else{
print "Warning: Skipping NM\n";
}

print "\nExit Child\n";

exit;
}

#Parent process continues

defined $pid_NM or die "Error: Fork is failed!\n";

#Following 10 prints takes 10 sec and show that parent "process" is alive
#for(my $i=0; $i < 5; $i++){
# print "P\n";
# sleep 1;
#}

#assuming the parent path has not changed, so still can use relative chadir
path
my $pid_WMEnc = fork;
#Following is forked, shared code till (including) unless statement
#print "pid = $pid_WMEnc\n";
unless($pid_WMEnc)
{
#WindowsMediaEncoder process, go to its directory
chdir $pathWme;
my $ClildCMD = "WMEncoder" . $EXEorPL . " " . $FileToRecode . " 1 " .
$mixmode;

print "ClildCMD = $ClildCMD\n";

if($bRunWME){
system($ClildCMD) or die "Failed launch $ClildCMD";
}else{
print "Warning: Skipping WindowsMediaEncoder\n";
}

print "\nExit Child\n";

exit;
}

#Parent process continues

defined $pid_WMEnc or die "Error: Fork is failed!\n";

#
# Now it's time to synch up copmlition. After WMEncoder completes we don't need
NM any more,
# so we need to ping it to wrop it up.
#

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print "Parent: waiting for Child $pid_WMEnc to finish\n";

waitpid($pid_WMEnc, 0);
print "Parent: Child 2 $pid_WMEnc has finished\n";

print "TBD: (Skipped) Ping NM to wrap up\n";

print "Parent: Waiting for Child $pid_NM to finish\n";

waitpid($pid_NM, 0);
print "Patrent: Child 1 $pid_NM has finished\n";

print "\nAll done: Exit Parent\n";

exit;

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