Retro: Comparing Gaming Performance on 6 Windows Generations | 10 years ago

1 - Evolution in kleinen Dosen – von Windows 95 bis Windows 7 2 - Schneller Fensterputzer – der Retro-Windows-PC entsteht 3 - Zahltag mit SuperPi 4 - Schweißtreibende Synthetik – MetaBench 5 - DirectX 5 – Der THG Do-It-Yourself Benchmark 6 - DirectX 6 – Asphalt-Pixel mit Need for Speed High Stakes 7 - DirectX 7 – James Bond für Feministinnen - No One Lives Forever 8 - DirectX 8 – Mafia, der Klassiker für die ganze Famile 9 - DirectX 9 – Die Sims 2 und die Generationenfrage 10 - Gegentest – Zwei alte CPUs gegen einen aktuellen Dualcore 11 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit – Die Zeit ist abgelaufen

Finally, we would like to do the counter-test and have 2 individual old CPUs compete against an equally fast clocked current dualcore. Of course, this constellation only makes sense from Windows XP, because Windows 9x does not support multi-core systems. We were able to get a 6800GS AGP in the short term, so that at least on the graphics side there should be an approximate tie. Our choice in this test was on an up-to-date AMD CPU, because we were able to lower the clock to a comparable 800 MHz in contrast to the Intel system.

Testing was done with XP Professional + SP3 and Forceware 175.16. First, let's look at synthetic benchmarks. The values of phenom 2 were calculated with 100% power and the results of the PIII system were compared in percentage terms.

The old PIII is quite bold when you consider that an old VIA chipset and very slow RAM are in play. The AMD system, on the other hand, benefits from faster RAM, the better chipset and, of course, the more modern architecture. However, we deliberately dispensed with SuperPi in this test. Finally, we want to test a game that falls into the DirectX 9 category: Need for Speed Underground 2.

Here, both systems clearly limit the CPU, even if you use the better graphics card. Despite theoretical advantages, the Phenom 2 is only marginally faster at the same clock.