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Business and Multimedia
Content Creation Winstone tests, from
Veritest provide a performance metric with the latest
standard Business and Professional Desktop Publishing and
Content Creation software.
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Winstone Benchmarks |
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Business
Application and Multimedia Content Creation
Performance |
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Applications
used in the Business Winstone tests include:
- Five Microsoft Office 2002
applications (Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and
Word)
- Microsoft Project 2000
- Lotus Notes
- WinZip 8.0
- Norton AntiVirus
- Netscape Communicator
The Business
Winstone tests have always favored AMD Athlon processors
over the Pentium 4. Perhaps this is due to the fact
that the applications that are tested are based on long
standing legacy code, that doesn't take advantage of the
Pentium 4's architecture but one thing is for certain.
If you are just going to run Word Processors, Web Browsers
and various Desktop Utilities, the Athlon XP certainly
provides an excellent price/performance curve.
Applications
used in the Multimedia Content Creation Winstone tests
include:
- Adobe Photoshop 7.0
- Adobe Premiere 6.0
- Macromedia Director 8.5.1
- Macromedia Dreamweaver 4
- Microsoft Windows MediaTM
Encoder 7.01.00.3055
- Netscape 6.2.3
- NewTek's LightWave 7.5
- Sonic Foundry Sound
Forge 6.0
Multimedia
Content Creation, on the other hand, is the P4's strong
suit. Running bandwidth intensive applications like
Windows Media Encoder, exploits the Pentium 4 3.2GHz
architecture with its high speed 800MHz system bus. We
should note however, that the 2003 version of the CC
Winstone test, now includes
NewTek Lightwave 7.5. This 3D Graphics and
Animation platform seems to heavily favor the Pentium 4,
whether it be as a result of compiler optimization or the
system bandwidth advantage of the P4.
With the old
Content Creation 2002, the race would have been a bit closer
for the Athlon. However, like all things, time marches
on and developers are now coding applications that
specifically take advantage of the Pentium 4 architecture.
That's not to say that Lightwave weights particularly heavy
in this benchmark. As a matter of fact, there are 7
other applications tested here along with Lightwave, that
are also weighted equally. Plain and simple the 3.2GHz
Pentium 4 has a commanding 26% lead over the Athlon XP 3200+
in this test.
XMPEG DIVX Video Encoding And PCMark 2002 |