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Performance
PERFORMANCE:
At first we have a short look at synthetic benchmarks for CPU and memory bandwidth. The PCMark 2004 CPU score shows little difference between the 925XE boards, Intel’s D925XECV2 seems to be marginally ahead. On all 3 boards however the 3.73 GHz EE scores better than the FX55.
Memory bandwidth measured by Sandra 2005 shows a similar picture: The 925XE boards perform very close together. The AA8XE has a small lead though. The bandwidth on all 925XE boards is substantially better than on the AMD platform.
We would like to remind the reader that synthetic benchmarks have little bearing on “real world” performance. If our synthetic results were true, the 3 Intel systems would outrun the AMD system by a wide margin. As we will soon show, this is not the case.
For testing general usage and multitasking performance we are using PCWorld’s WorldBench 5.0. This benchmark is based on widely used desktop applications and has become an industry standard for PC benchmarking. We are only showing results for a few popular applications covering office usage, video and audio encoding, picture viewing, data compression, DVD/CD burning. The reason is that in all tests the 3 Intel systems performed almost identically. The differences were not more than 1%. In a majority of the Winbench 5 tests the 925XE boards had a slight lead over their AMD competitor.
WorldBench 5 has one benchmark that runs “Mozilla” and “MS Media Encoder” in parallel to simulate a multitasking environment. Another such test is the PCMark 2004 “System Suite”. It includes 9 different application subtests, 3 of which are running in pairs. This gives a processor with HyperThreading capability an advantage in this benchmark.
Another benchmark falling into this category is Cinebench 2003, an OpenGL based software suite for 3D modelling, animation and rendering. It comes with a CPU test that can be configured to run in single or multiprocessor mode. We ran both modes for the P4 processors. The FX55 is only capable of running the single processor test.
The 3.73 GHz seems to make good use of its hyperthreading capability in these multitasking benchmarks, and we can see the 3 Intel systems 15% ahead of the FX55 system. We can also see again that the Intel systems have almost identical performance.
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