AMD Mobile AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+ Competitive Performance Guide. [2004-08] Datasheet

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Mobile AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor
3400+
Competitive Performance Guide
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This document is intended for use by those who are interested in AMD64 performance as demonstrated by the Mobile AMD the processor is shown as an average of all of the tests and as averages of compiled data from benchmarks in the following categories:
• “Office Productivity Overall” on page 5
• “Digital Media Overall” on page 10
• “3D Gaming Overall” on page 16
The result of each individual benchmark is shown in a graphical format. The system configurations are also listed at the end of this document. For a detailed benchmarking methodology, including step-by-step procedures on how to duplicate these results, refer to AMD Processor Performance Evaluation Guide, order# 30579.
Athlon™ 64 processor 3400+. The performance of
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Overall Performance

Performance Overall

The Mobile AMD Athlon™ 64 processor delivers the most advanced PC processor available for high-performance notebook PCs. This processor provides leading-edge performance for today’s demanding software like digital video, audio, imaging editing, 3D gaming, as well as office applications.
The Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor features AMD64 technology for the coming wave of 64-bit applications. Plus, AMD for your notebook computer and can provide for a quieter user experience.
PowerNow!™ technology enables extended battery life
While there is no simple way to measure performance that covers every user experience, AMD has compiled an average of all the benchmarks listed on page chart shows how the Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor performs overall relative to a Mobile Intel Pentium
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
®
4 3.2 GHz processor.
4. This
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Overall Performance
Overall processor performance is an average of the compiled data from the list of overall benchmark scores from the following tests:
Office Productivity
Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Business Winstone® 2004
Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Business Winstone® 2004 Multitasking Tests
BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 Office Productivity
WinRAR
Digital Media
Ziff Davis Media Inc. Multimedia Content Creation Winstone® 2004
BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 Internet Content Creation
AVI to MPEG2 Conversion with bbMPEG and AVI2MPEG2
MPEG2 to MPEG4 Conversion with Xmpeg and DivX
RazorLAME MP3 Encoder
3D Gaming (all tests performed at 1024x768x32 resolution)
3DMark® 2001SE PRO (D3D Hardware T&L) by MadOnion
3DMark® 2001SE PRO (D3D Software T&L)
3DMark® 03 Pro (Software Vertex Shaders) by Futuremark® Corporation
3DMark® 03 Pro (Hardware Vertex Shaders) by Futuremark® Corporation
AquaMark3
Comanche 4 Demo
Final Fantasy® XI Official Benchmark, v1.1
Final Fantasy® XI Official Benchmark 2, v1.01 (High Resolution)
Jedi Knights II Demo
Quake III Arena Demo2
Return to Castle Wolfenstein 3D
Splinter Cell (1_1_1)
Splinter Cell (1_1_2)
Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo BotMatch
Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo Flyby
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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Office Productivity

Office Productivity Overall

The Mobile AMD Athlon™ 64 processor effortlessly runs multiple applications at the same time which helps to minimize work stoppage and interruptions. It allows you to operate your system more efficiently when multitasking and helps to improve overall productivity in your notebook system.
The score is normalized to a Mobile Intel Pentium® 4 3.2 GHz processor. This benchmark is an average of compiled data from the list of benchmark scores from the tests listed below:
Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Business Winstone® 2004
Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Business Winstone® 2004 Multitasking Tests
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 Office Productivity
WinRAR
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Office Productivity

Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Business Winstone® 2004

Business Winstone is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running today's top-selling Windows® operating system-based applications. Business Winstone does not mimic what these packages do; it runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities to produce its performance scores.
The score is normalized to a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor. The Business Winstone benchmark uses the following applications.
•Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6
• Microsoft Outlook 2002 SP-2
• Microsoft Project 2002
• Microsoft Access 2002 SP-2
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 SP-2
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
• Microsoft Excel 2002 SP-2
• Microsoft FrontPage 2002 SP-2
• Microsoft Word 2002 SP-2
• Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003
• WinZip 8.1 SR-1
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Office Productivity

Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Business Winstone® 2004 Multitasking Tests

Business Winstone Multitasking test uses the same applications as Business Winstone, but runs some of the applications in the background while doing work in the foreground. If you're the type of person who runs a virus check in the background while you use Office applications in the foreground, you'll want to check out this test.
The score is normalized to a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor. The Business Winstone Multitasking benchmark uses the following applications:
•Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6
• Microsoft Outlook 2002 SP-2
• Microsoft Project 2002
• Microsoft Access 2002 SP-2
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 SP-2
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
• Microsoft Excel 2002 SP-2
• Microsoft FrontPage 2002 SP-2
• Microsoft Word 2002 SP-2
• Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003
• WinZip 8.1 SR-1
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Office Productivity

BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 Office Productivity

The BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 is an application-based benchmark.
The score is normalized to a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor. The BAPCO SYSmark benchmark uses the following applications.
• Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0.5
®
•Microsoft
• Microsoft Excel 2002
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
• Microsoft Outlook 2002
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
Access 2002
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
• Microsoft Word 2002
• Network Associates M
• ScanSoft Dragon Naturally Speaking 6 Preferred
• WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1
c
Afee VirusScan 7.0
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Office Productivity

WinRAR

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of E­mail attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
The score is normalized to a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor. This benchmark is the compiled data from the WinRAR benchmark scores.
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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Digital Media

Digital Media Overall

Digital Media Overall Results

With a revolutionary processor design and support for both 3DNow!™ Professional technology and SSE2 instructions, the Mobile AMD outstanding performance for multimedia applications in a notebook system. Compose, edit, and encode digital audio, video, and image files quickly and smoothly so you can save time and produce outstanding work.
Athlon™ 64 processor provides
This benchmark is an average of compiled data from the list of benchmark scores from the tests listed below. The score is normalized to a Mobile Intel Pentium
®
4 3.2 GHz
processor.
Ziff Davis Media Inc. Multimedia Content Creation Winstone® 2004
BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 Internet Content Creation
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
AVI to MPEG2 Conversion with bbMPEG and AVI2MPEG2
MPEG2 to MPEG4 Conversion with Xmpeg and DivX
RazorLAME MP3 Encoder
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Digital Media

Ziff Davis Media Inc. Multimedia Content Creation Winstone® 2004

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone® is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows
®
operating
system-based multimedia content creation applications.
The score is normalized to a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor. Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 uses the following applications:
®
Windows® Media Encoder 9
• Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1
• Adobe Premiere 6.50
• Macromedia Director MX 9.0
• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.1
•Microsoft Version 9.00.00.2980
• NewTek's LightWave 3D 7.5b
• Steinberg WaveLab 4.0f
Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a single large test that runs the above applications through a series of scripted activities and returns a single score.
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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Digital Media

BAPCO® SYSmark® 2004 Internet Content Creation

SYSmark® 2004 is an application-based benchmark.
This benchmark incorporates the following Internet Content Creation applications. The score is normalized to a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor.
• Adobe® After Effects 5.5
• Adobe Photoshop 7.01
• Adobe Premiere 6.5
• Discrete 3ds max 5.1
• Network Associates M
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
c
Afee VirusScan 7.0
• WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1
• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
• Macromedia Flash MX
•Windows
®
Media Encoder 9 Series
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Digital Media

AVI to MPEG2 Conversion with bbMPEG and AVI2MPEG2

This benchmark tests AVI to MPEG2 conversion using bbMPEG and AVI2MPEG2. This benchmark uses bbMPEG and AVI2MPEG2 to convert a 640 MB AVI video file to MPEG2 format.
The score is normalized to a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor. This benchmark is the compiled data from the bbMPEG and AVI2MPEG2 benchmark scores.
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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Digital Media

MPEG2 to MPEG4 Conversion with Xmpeg and DivX

This benchmark uses Xmpeg 5.02 and DivX 5.03 Pro to convert the MPEG2 video file created with the The benchmark creates an MPEG4 file in the DivX format.
AVI to MPEG2 Conversion with bbMPEG and AVI2MPEG2 benchmark.
The score is normalized to a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor. This benchmark is the compiled data from the MPEG2 to MPEG4 benchmark scores.
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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RazorLAME MP3 Encoder

Digital Media
The score is normalized to a Mobile Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz processor. This benchmark is the compiled data from the RazorLAME version 1.1.5 MP3 benchmark scores.
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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3D Gaming

3D Gaming Overall

The Mobile AMD Athlon™ 64 processor's innovative technology enables the ultimate gaming experience in a notebook system. The Mobile AMD users to escape into a movie-like gaming experience with smooth 3D graphics, rich textures, quick response times, and realistic sound.
Athlon 64 processor allows
This benchmark is an average of compiled data from the list of benchmark scores from the following list of tests. All benchmarks normalize the score to Mobile Intel Pentium
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4 Processor 3.2 GHz for the following tests (all at 1024x768x32):
3DMark® 2001SE PRO (D3D Hardware T&L) by MadOnion
3DMark® 2001SE PRO (D3D Software T&L)
3DMark® 03 Pro (Software Vertex Shaders) by Futuremark® Corporation
3DMark® 03 Pro (Hardware Vertex Shaders) by Futuremark® Corporation
AquaMark3
Comanche 4 Demo
Final Fantasy® XI Official Benchmark, v1.1
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
Final Fantasy® XI Official Benchmark 2, v1.01 (High Resolution)
Half-Life Smokin’
Jedi Knights II Demo
Quake III Arena Demo2
Return to Castle Wolfenstein 3D
Splinter Cell (1_1_1)
Splinter Cell (1_1_2)
Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo BotMatch
Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo Flyby
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3D Gaming

3DMark® 2001SE PRO (D3D Hardware T&L) by MadOnion

3DMark
®

2001SE PRO (D3D Software T&L)

Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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3D Gaming

3DMark® 03 Pro (Software Vertex Shaders) by Futuremark® Corporation

3DMark® 03 Pro (Hardware Vertex Shaders) by Futuremark® Corporation

Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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AquaMark3

3D Gaming

Comanche 4 Demo

Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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Final Fantasy® XI Official Benchmark, v1.1

3D Gaming
Final Fantasy® XI Official Benchmark Resolution)
2, v1.01 (High
Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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Half-Life Smokin’

3D Gaming

Jedi Knights II Demo

Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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Quake III Arena Demo2

3D Gaming

Return to Castle Wolfenstein 3D

Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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Splinter Cell (1_1_1)

3D Gaming

Splinter Cell (1_1_2)

Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo BotMatch

3D Gaming

Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo Flyby

Refer to Table 1 on page 25 and Table 2 on page 26 for benchmark system configuration.
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Benchmark System Configuration

This section describes the configurations that AMD used to perform the benchmarks.
Ta b le 1 and Ta b l e 2, on page 26 represent the system configurations used for this
document.
Table 1. Mobile AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor 3400+, 3200+ System
Configuration
Component Manufacturer and Model Description
Operating System
Processor
Notebook
Chipset
RAM memory
Hardware
Hard drive
Video Card
Audio
LAN
Wireless LAN
AGP
IDE
Video
Drivers
Audio
Microsoft
®
Windows® XP Professional, RTM, Service Pack 1a, Build
2600, DirectX 9.0a
Mobile AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor 3400+
1
, 3200+
1
Arima A520-K8, BIOS version 0B09.P06
VIA K8T800
512 MB DDR SDRAM (PC2700/DDR333, CAS Latency 2.5)
Hitachi IC25N040ATCS05, 40 GB, 5400 RPM, 8 MB buffer, UDMA100
(NTFS used to format the hard disk)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, 64 MB video RAM
SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio
VIA Rhine II (disabled during test)
N/A
VIA version 5.1.0.3442, 7/2/2003
Microsoft version 5.1.3597.0, 7/1/2001, DMA enabled
ATI version 6.14.10.6378, 8/12/2003, 1024x768x32, 85 Hz refresh
rate
Analog Devices version 5.12.1.3620, 5/27/2003
LAN
Wireless Lan
1
This model number indicates relative software performance among AMD processors.
VIA version 3.15.0.351, 1/15/2003
N/A
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Table 2. Mobile Intel Pentium® 4 System Configuration
Component Manufacturer and Model Description
®
Operating System
Processor
Microsoft
Windows® XP Professional, RTM, Service Pack 1a, Build
2600, DirectX 9.0a
Mobile Intel Pentium
®
4 3.2 GHz
Hardware
Drivers
Notebook
Chipset
RAM memory
Hard drive
Video Card
Audio
LAN
Wireless LAN
AGP
IDE
Video
Audio
LAN
Wireless Lan
Dell Inspiron 5150, BIOS version A26
Intel 852PM
512 MB DDR SDRAM (PC2700/DDR333, CAS Latency 2.5)
Hitachi IC25N040ATCS05, 40 GB, 5400 RPM, 8 MB buffer, UDMA100
(NTFS used to format the hard disk)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, 64 MB video RAM
SigmaTel C-Major
Broadcom 440X 10/100 (disabled during test)
N/A
Intel version 5.0.1011.0, 3/7/2003
Intel version 4.0.1001.0, 7/2/2001
ATI version 6.14.10.6371, 7/29/2003, 1024x768x32, 85 Hz refresh
rate
SigmaTel version 6.14.1.3794, 4/25/2003
Broadcom version 3.60.0.0, 5/15/2003
N/A
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Winstone is a registered trademark of Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings, Inc.
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3DMark and Futuremark are trademarks of Futuremark Corporation.
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