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Moving on to the business side
of things, we have some testing from the Ziff Davis Winstone
suite.
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Business and Content Creation Winstone |
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P4 optimizations
not found here |
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Here the Pentium 4 is bested by
the Athlon at 1.4GHz. This particular round of testing
doesn't take advantage of the memory bandwidth of the P4
platform and in general is more I/O intensive.
Regardless, while running spreadsheets, word processor,
Adobe Photoshop and the like, the Athlon is faster.
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MadOnion Video 2000 MPEG 2 Encode and 3D Mark
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Taxing bandwidth
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To illustrate this point a
little further we ran
MadOnion's
Video 2000 MPEG 2 Endcode test. This test uses the
host processor exclusively to convert a scene to MPEG 2
format. It heavily stresses system bandwidth and CPU
performance.
Here both the 1.8GHz. and
1.6GHz. P4 tests beat out the Athlon by a fairly significant
margin. The P4's enormous memory bandwidth certainly
propels things along nicely for it during the processing of
video and audio streams. Incidentally, MP3 encoding
requires the same sort of processing overhead and the
results are very similar.
Since we're on the subject of
MadOnion
(where they get these names I'll never know), let's ease
into the gaming end of things with 3D Mark 2001.
Once again, the Pentium 4
prevails at all speed bins, surprisingly leading the Athlon
by over 700 3D Marks at 1.6GHz. This is an inkling of
things to come with respect to SSE2 optimizations for the P4
platform.
On a side note, you may have
noticed our Pentium 4 was able to overclock to a high of
2.07GHz. (or 2070MHz.) in this test. This was fairly
easily achieved with the stock cooler used in our test and
at default voltage. Perhaps with a little more
persuasion, we could have taken it higher. However, at
115MHz. X 18 and a memory clock of 460MHz., we certainly
weren't complaining.
Moving right along now...
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3D Winbench, Quake3
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