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.

AquaMark3
1024x768 Processor	Points	Ranking
Pentium 4 3.0C (i875P 200/400)	9793
Pentium 4 540 (915P 200/400)	4558
Pentium 4 540 (925X 200/533)	4574
AthlonXP 3200+ (NF2 Ultra 200/400)	8172
Athlon64 3200+ (NF3-250 200/400)	9384
Athlon64 3800+ (K8T800 Pro 200/400)	11141
Athlon64 3800+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400)	10812
Athlon64 3800+ @ 2.57 GHz	10632
1024x768 Overall	Points	Ranking
Pentium 4 3.0C (i875P 200/400)	44033
Pentium 4 540 (915P 200/400)	24106
Pentium 4 540 (925X 200/533)	24082
AthlonXP 3200+ (NF2 Ultra 200/400)	43482
Athlon64 3200+ (NF3-250 200/400)	46207
Athlon64 3800+ (K8T800 Pro 200/400)	48734
Athlon64 3800+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400)	49843
Athlon64 3800+ @ 2.57 GHz	49516

It should come as no surprise that the Athlon64 3800+ rules this benchmark, considering it has the most CPU power by far.

Comanche 4	Source: Novalogic

The Comanche 4 benchmark demo is a unique benchmark as it represents a real-world gaming experience. It contains the single player "Eagle's Talon" mission from the game as well as a detailed cinematic. This DirectX 8.1 benchmark demo will measure your system's performance in the standard frames per second format. The benchmark was run with audio disabled.

Comanche 4
640x480	FPS	Ranking
Pentium 4 3.0C (i875P 200/400)	63.35
Pentium 4 540 (915P 200/400)	61.02
Pentium 4 540 (925X 200/533)	61.59
AthlonXP 3200+ (NF2 Ultra 200/400)	52.7
Athlon64 3200+ (NF3-250 200/400)	66.33
Athlon64 3800+ (K8T800 Pro 200/400)	72.81
Athlon64 3800+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400)	72.12
Athlon64 3800+ @ 2.57 GHz	75.17

Comanche 4 is a decent whole system benchmark, and here we see that the Athlon 64 3800+ is easily the most powerful processor.