Especially interesting is gaming performance for the top games (HL2, D3, Far Cry, UT), power consumption numbers for 90nm etc.
Yes amazing gaming benchmarks. It looks like A64 is the top choice for all the prime gaming engines out there. The games benchmarked in this article will represent nearly all other 3d action games for the next couple of years. The Doom, Unreal, and Source engines are highly sought after by other developers and will be used in 90% of the games coming out, and probably 100% of the top games.
Also the 90nm power numbers are even more interesting given this quote:
I'm a little disappointed in our power consumption testing because we ran into a big, hairy snag. This problem affected the previous Athlon 64 90nm tests we performed, although we were unaware of it at the time. It seems the CPU voltage option on our Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard isn't actually functional; we could set the proper voltage for each CPU in the BIOS, but no matter what, both the AsusProbe monitoring software and CPU-Z reported 1.6V for the CPU. It's possible this problem was caused by the revision 1008 beta 1 BIOS we were using, but that BIOS was necessary for compatibility with the 90nm Athlon 64. This problem was exacerbated by the fact that the A8V Deluxe is the only motherboard we had on hand that would POST with a 90nm Athlon 64 processor. As a result, all of the readings you'll see below were taken with the CPU voltage at 1.6V (although we did set the proper value on the BIOS for each processor). Generally, 130nm Athlon 64s are supposed to run at 1.5V, and the 90nm flavors expect 1.4V. Take the results as you will, or ignore them if they offend your precise sensibilities.
So the 90nm system power of 108/145 is too high, and it still looks quite good compared to the equivalent 121/172 for 130nm.
