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eTesting Labs Content Creation Winstone 2002
and Business Winstone 2001 |
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Office
Productivity and Internet/Multimedia Content
Creation Testing |
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Ziff Davis
recently broke out their benchmarking software division on
it own P&L and they now do business under the name
eTesting Labs. The Business Winstone test that
they have had released for a while, is up to revision 1.0.2
but supposedly there will be no Business Winstone 2002.
Here are the
tests that Biz Winstone 2001 runs and scores with:
- Five Microsoft Office 2000
applications (Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and
Word)
- Microsoft Project 98
- Lotus Notes R5
- NicoMak WinZip
- Norton AntiVirus
- Netscape Communicator
This is the
first time we have ever seen the top end Pentium 4 beat out
the top end Athlon of the day, in this test. The
2.4GHz Pentium 4 Northwood pulls ahead ever so slightly here
with a small 2% lead over the Athlon XP 2100+.
However, as we've stated many times before, you won't notice
much of a difference between any of the processors tested
here, when running any of the applications that this
benchmark uses. These apps just don't tax system
bandwidth or CPU processing power enough, especially in the
higher end clock speeds.
Content Creation
Winstone, on the other hand, tests with a little more of an
"industrial strength" approach.
CC Winstone 2002 uses the following
applications in its battery of tests:
- Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1
- Adobe Premiere 6.0
- Macromedia Director 8.5
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
UltraDev 4
- Microsoft Windows Media
Encoder 7.01.00.3055
- Netscape Navigator 6/6.01
- Sonic Foundry Sound Forge
5.0c (build 184)
The Pentium 4
2.4GHz Northwood and the Athlon XP 2100+ are neck and neck
in this test, with what could be called a "photo finish".
Actually, these scores are so close, they are certainly
within this test's margin of error. Again, we would
challenge anyone to notice the performance difference, when
running any of the applications listed above, on either the
Pentium 4 2.4GHz test bed or the Athlon XP 2100+ setup we
used.
SpecViewperf 3D Modeling Benchmarks |