AquaMark3	Source: Massive Development

AquaMark3 is a powerful tool to determine reliable information about the gaming performance of a computer system. Because the benchmark extensively utilizes DirectX9, DirectX8 and DirectX7 functionality, it represents the requirements of typical gaming applications in 2003 and 2004.

AquaMark 3 Benchmark Results
	Processor	3DMarks	Ranking
1.	Pentium 4 3.2C	5700
2.	AthlonXP 3200+	5685
3.	Athlon64 3200+	5964
4.	Athlon64 3200+ Oc'ed (2.25 GHz)	5976

AquaMark 3 Benchmark Results
	Overall	3DMarks	Ranking
1.	Pentium 4 3.2C	44086
2.	AthlonXP 3200+	42055
3.	Athlon64 3200+	44918
4.	Athlon64 3200+ Oc'ed (2.25 GHz)	45488

While the overall scores are very close among all the systems, we do see that the Athlon64 3200+ has more processor power than the competition.

Quake III Arena	Source: ID Software

Quake III Arena is a First Person Shooter (FPS) that revolutionized gaming as we know it. Using multiple light sources and having graphics textures that can fill videocards, even after 3 years it's still able to bring a cutting edge system to its knees.

Quake III Arena Fastest demo001 (SYSTEM)
	Processor	FPS	Ranking
1.	Pentium 4 3.2C	487.2
2.	AthlonXP 3200+	409
3.	Athlon64 3200+	493.9
4.	Athlon64 3200+ Oc'ed (2.25 GHz)	522.9

Quake III Arena Fastest nv15demo (CPU TESTER)
	Processor	FPS	Ranking
1.	Pentium 4 3.2C	131.3
2.	AthlonXP 3200+	116.7
3.	Athlon64 3200+	127.8
4.	Athlon64 3200+ Oc'ed (2.25 GHz)	135.1

Quake III Arena loves bandwidth and here we see that the Athlon64 has just a tad more than the Pentium 4 3.2 GHz.