Vue has always been faster on AMD than on Intel. It uses raw floating-point calculations that are more efficiently handled by the Athlon XP architecture. With Vue 4 Pro, hyperthreading helps, but still the P4 is not terribly impressive.

As for my XP2400, it has nothing out of the ordinary : 2 Ghz, Epox EP-8RGA+ motherboard, NVidia nForce 2 IGP chipset, FSB 266 (2x133), 512 MB of CAS2.5 memory (2.5-3-3-6 timings).

I re-ran the benchmark today on an overclocked - but perfectly stable - 2.4Ghz P4C (the famous M0 stepping) running at 3300 Mhz, with Abit IC7-Max 3 motherboard, i875P chipset, FSB 1100 Mhz (4x275), 220 Mhz memory bus (5:4 ratio) with 1 GB of CAS2 Corsair XMS3500 (2-3-2-5 timings). Vue4 Pro bench : 21 mn 03 s, so about the same as a Dual Athlon MP1800+ (2 x 1533 Mhz).

Now I am curious about the results on an Athlon 64.