3DMark 2001SE, SS2, Comanche 4
The strength of the Athlon 64 3200+ has been most ably demonstrated in gaming benchmarks. Time and time again we've seen it smirk at its clock speed deficit and hammer home the advantage of low latency bandwidth and 1MB of L2 cache.
More proof of what a decent S754 board can do with a 3200+ in situ. The KV8-MAX3 is almost 800 marks ahead of the P4 / IC7 pairing. We'd hazard that it would need a 3.6GHz regular P4 to match or beat the KV8's benchmark. A breakdown can be found here. It's scary to think what a Radeon 9800XT / KV8-MAX3 and Athlon 64 3200+ combination is capable of.
The introduction of the 9800XT has boosted scores just a tad in Serious Sam 2. The K7 Athlon was pretty good with SS2, so it's kind of logical to see the newer iteration do well. Low-latency bandwidth helps push the KV8-MAX3 over the 200FPS threshold.
Far, far tighter in Comanche 4. The reason behind the close proximity lies with the benchmark becoming almost totally system bound at 1024x768x32, especially with the 9800XT card. Here's a case where you can't tell which CPU is inside the case, and that notion can extend to pretty much all the benchmarks. Both Intel and AMD's high-end CPUs are supported by stable chipsets. The enthusiasts' choice is becoming that much harder to make.