The new DirectX9 benchmark based on X2 – The Threat game gives the victory to Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. However, the remaining participants seem to be doing just the same way as in the previous benchmarks. Again lower memory subsystem latency appears more important that high bandwidth that is why Athlon 64 3200+ outperforms Opteron 146, Pentium 4 3.2GHz and Athlon XP 3200+.

Here Athlon 64 3200+ still keeps pleasing us with the results. However, in Halo this CPU is still a little behind Opteron 146 (for the first time throughout the last 6 tests) and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition with 2MB L3 cache.

The results in the new Tomb Raider series appears a surprise for us. Here Athlon 64 3200+ is an indisputable winner, leaving behind even Athlon 64 FX-51. low memory subsystem latency can sometimes work wonders, as we have just seen.