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Applications Benchmarks
Business
Winstone is a system-level, application-based benchmark
that measures a PC's overall performance when running
today's top-selling Windows-based 32-bit applications on
Windows 98 SE, Windows NT 4.0 (SP6 or later), Windows
2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP. Business Winstone
doesn't mimic what these packages do; it runs real
applications through a series of scripted activities and
uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities to
produce its performance scores.
For our
tests we used ZD Business Winstone 2001 1.02.
The
results of this test are quite disapointing for the AMD
Athlon XP 2200+. The most powerful AMD processor only
manages to beat the entry level Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz
processor. Otherwise every Intel processors are faster
than both Athlon. The results of the Athlon are probably
crippled down by the 256KB limited L2 cache memory while
Intel processors featuring the Northwood core have 512KB
of L2 cache memory. Anyway the Pentium 4 2.53GHz is 25%
faster than the Athlon XP 2200+ and 29% faster than the
Athlon XP 2000+. The Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz outclasses
the Athlon XP 2200+ by 13%. |
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Content Creation Winstone
2002 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that
measures a PC's overall performance when running top,
Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications on
Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP.
Following the lead of real users, Content Creation
Winstone 2002 keeps multiple
applications open at once and switches among those
applications. Content Creation Winstone 2002
is a single large test that runs the above applications
through a series of scripted activities and returns a
single score. Those activities focus on what we call
"hot spots," periods of activity that make your PC
really work--the times where you're likely to see an
hourglass or a progress bar.
For our
tests we used Content Creation 2002. Just like with the
Ziff Davis Business Winstone 2001 test, the Pentium 4
2.53GHz is on top of the race. It overtakes the Athlon
XP 2200+ by 21% and the Athlon XP 2000+ by 23%. The
Pentium 4 2.0a GHz beats the Athlon XP 2000+ by 2% while
the Pentium 4 2.2GHz beats the Athlon XP 2200+ by 5% |
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SYSMark 2002 remains an
essential and very good benchmarking tool that is definitely not biased.
SYSmark 2002 is meant for the serious benchmarking professional. It
includes a robust set of 14 application benchmarks covering a wide range
of Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity application
categories. The applications emulate usage patterns of today's desktop
business user that includes concurrent execution of applications. The
results above speak for themselves, but let me comment them.
In this test the winner is... well try to
guess... the Pentium 4 2.53GHz, yes! Intel's latest monster outperforms
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ by 41%. No, there's no typo you have correctly read
the percentage. Even with the considerable advantage of having 512MB of
RAM instead of 256MB for the Intel platforms, the Athlon XP 2200+ drags
along. Such a difference between Intel and AMD processors can
be explained by the presence of 512KB of L2 cache memory in Pentium 4
processors (against 256KB in Athlon) as well as the use of Rambus
memory. Indeed the PC1066 Rambus memory teamed up with the 533MHz Front
Side Bus of the Pentium 4 is able to offer a wide bandwidth required by
today's most demanding applications. The Pentium 4 2.2GHz beats the
Athlon XP 2200+ by 22%. Nonetheless the Athlon XP 2200+ outclasses the
Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz by 10%. |
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