AMD Athlon 800

Advanced Visualizer (AWadvs-03) Viewset

Taken from http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.static/awadvs.htm

Advanced Visualizer from Alias/Wavefront is an integrated workstation-based 3D animation system that offers a comprehensive set of tools for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, image composition, and video output. All operations within Advanced Visualizer are performed in immediate mode with double buffered windows. There are four basic modes of operation within Advanced Visualizer:

 
• 55% material shading (textured, z-buffered, backface-culled, 2 local lights)
• 95% perspective, 80% trilinear mipmapped, modulated (41.8%)
• 95% perspective, 20% nearest, modulated (10.45%)
• 5% ortho, 80% trilinear mipmapped, modulated (2.2%)
• 5% ortho, 20% nearest, modulated (.55%)
• 30% wireframe (no z-buffering, no lighting)
• 95% perspective (28.5%)
• 5% ortho (1.5%)
• 10% smooth shading (z-buffered, backface-culled, 2 local lights)
• 95% perspective (9.5%)
• 5% ortho (.5%)
• 5% flat shading (z-buffered, backface-culled, 2 local lights)
• 95% perspective (4.75%)
• 5% ortho (.25%)

3D modeling and animation take advantage of the Athlon's superior FPU but at the same time seem to benefit more from the Pentium III's full speed L2 cache. The 1.6GB/s memory bandwidth made available by the i820/RDRAM platform also seems to have a positive effect on the results as the Pentium III 800 clearly distances itself from the competition.