For our benchmarking of the
"Tualatin," we thought it only fair to compare its
performance to some other common processors out there.
Below we've listed several test systems that we'll be using
as a reference for comparing benchmark performance.
This is just a loose comparison to give a rough idea of
where the "Tualatin" lies in the big picture. In the
tests ahead, we will be comparing the performance to an
Athlon 1.4GHz. system as well as a P4 1.8GHz. system.
We've also mounted the "Tualatin" in a
Soyo
i815-based motherboard, to uncover any overclocking
potential. You may say that it doesn't seem like a
fair fight overall, but you may be surprised at some of the
findings. On to the numbers!
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HotHardware Test Systems |
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Zesty... |
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Intel Pentium III "Tualatin"
1.20GHz.
256 Mushkin PC133 Rev. 3+
RAM
Intel D815EEA2 Motherboard
Gigabyte GeForce 3 Video
card
15GB IBM 7200RPM ATA 100
Hercules Game Theater XP
Windows Millennium
Direct X 8.0a
Intel ATA Storage Drivers
6.1
nVidia reference drivers
version 12.41
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Intel Pentium III "Tualatin"
1.20GHz.
256 Mushkin PC133 Rev. 3+
RAM
Soyo SY-TISU Motherboard
Gigabyte GeForce 3 Video
card
15GB IBM 7200RPM ATA 100
Hercules Game Theater XP
Windows Millennium
Direct X 8.0a
Intel ATA Storage Drivers
6.1
nVidia reference drivers
version 12.41
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AMD Athlon 1.40GHz.
Processor
256 CAS 2 DDRRAM
Epox 8K7A Motherboard
Visiontek GeForce 3 Video
card
30GB IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100
Hercules Game Theater XP
Windows Millennium
Direct X 8.0a
AMD Chipset Drivers
nVidia reference
drivers version 12.41 |
Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz.
Processor
256 Samsung PC800 RAMBUS
DRDRAM
Abit TH7-RID Pentium 4
Motherboard
Stock HSF
nVidia GeForce 3 Video card
30GB IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100
Windows Millennium
Direct X 8.0
Intel chipset drivers
version 2.90
nVidia reference
drivers version 12.41 |
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Low
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When you look
at the CPU and Multimedia numbers, you'll see that the
"Tualatin" comes very close to the Athlon 1.2GHz.
reference system. RAM performance top that of
several DDR 2100 based systems, only to be outperformed by
PC800 RDRRAM. Now, this all "looks" good, but the
true test is running the numbers. So let us get
started by tearing through some Business Winstone and
Content Creation...
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Business and Content Creation Winstone |
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First up is
Business Winstone, an acid test of today's business
oriented applications. After hearing all the rumors
about Intel's new processor, I was anxious to see who it
handled some of today's intensive applications.
Overall, the "Tualatin" has
put up some pretty decent numbers, only being topped by
the Athlon 1.4GHz. Take into account the clock speed
advantage that the Athlon has and the
"Tualatin" shines.
Our next test is Content
Creation. Content Creation stresses system
performance with graphic intensive applications like Adobe
Photoshop 5.5. This is traditionally where Athlon
tends to take the lead...
Once again, the
"Tualatin" is only
surpassed by the Athlon 1.4GHz and its 200MHz. advantage.
Overall, the
"Tualatin" has put up
some
excellent numbers for a Pentium III. You may notice
that I didn't mention the fact that the Pentium 4 was dead
last in both tests. The Winstone benchmarks don't
allow the Pentium 4 a chance to show its ability simply
because these applications are not designed to take full
advantage of the memory bandwidth that the Pentium 4 has
to offer. Keep an eye out as more applications are
written to take advantage of this bandwidth, and we'll
surely
begin to see the scales tip in the P4's favor.
Mad Onion, 3D Winbench, and Some Fun
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