We hesitate to post Sandra
numbers these days. It seems as if too often, scores
within this suite are somewhat nebulous and skewed.
However, it does give a quick high level impression of
system performance. In addition, it is widely used in
the power end user community.
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| Benchmarks
and
Comparisons With A 2GHz. Pentium 4 |
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A thing of beauty |
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CPU
2GHz.
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CPU
2.24GHz.
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Memory 100MHz. FSB @ 2GHz.
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Memory 112MHz. FSB @ 2.24GHz.
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Multimedia 2GHz.
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Multimedia
2.24GHz.
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As we suspected, off the charts
kind of performance.
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| ZD Winstones |
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Baseline business
apps tested |
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As you will note,
the AMD Athlon does have a commanding lead in this suite of
tests. We have yet to really understand why. We
have been told that Winstone tests are very I/O dependant.
That is to say, they are often accessing different pieces of
data and opening and closing applications quickly, versus
processing large amounts of contiguous data. It's hard
to say really. However, when it comes to light duty
and legacy office applications, it is hard to argue with the
performance of the T-Bird.
On the other hand,
when the heat is turned up a notch and massive amounts of
data are involved, the picture changes somewhat.
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MadOnion's Video 2000 MPEG2 Encode Test |
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Audio, Video and A
Boat Load of Performance |
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The 1.8GHz. Pentium
4 (now selling for about $250) leads the Athlon 1.4 with
ease and at 2GHz.. MPEG2 Video Encoding couldn't be faster
than on a 2GHz. P4. This one subset test of the Video
2000 benchmark suite, exercises raw CPU horsepower and most
of all throughput. With the massive bandwidth of the
P4, it's hard to beat it.
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3DMark
2001, Sysmark 2001 and 3D Winbench
