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Testbed Setup
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Processors
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Intel Pentium 4C 2.4GHz
Intel Pentium 4C 2.6GHz Intel Pentium 4C 3.2GHz AMD Athlon XP (Barton) 2500+ AMD Athlon XP (Barton) 3200+ |
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Motherboard
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ABIT IS7-G motherboard (GAT Enabled)
EPoX 8RDA+ motherboard |
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Memory
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Dual 256MB Corsair XMS PC3200 TwinX memory modules
@ 2-2-2-6 |
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Graphics Card
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ATi Radeon 9500 Pro
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Hard Disk
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20GB Seagate Barracuda IV
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Power Supply
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Antec 480W PSU
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Software & Drivers Setup
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Operating System
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Windows XP Professional SP1
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Chipset Driver
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Intel Chipset Driver v.5.02.1003
NVIDIA nForce2 Forceware Driver v.3.13 |
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Graphics Card Driver
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ATi Catalyst v.3.7
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DirectX
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DirectX 9.0b
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Business Winstone 2002 v1.0.1
Business applications are application that usually involves a great deal of flow control operations such as conditional branches. The Pentium 4 has traditionally been a weak performer in this field due to its very long pipeline. This caused a big performance penalty when the pipeline has to be flushed due to unsuccessful predictions.
Here we can see that even the AMD Barton 2500+ is able to beat Intel's flagship P4 3.2GHz.
Generally, the AMD Barton was anywhere from 13% to 25% faster than the Intel Pentium 4C in this test.
Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2003 1.0
The situation takes a 180° turn when it came to Multimedia Content Creation performance.
In Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2003, even the slowest Pentium 4C managed to beat the Barton 3200+. As a result, the 3.2GHz Pentium 4C shows a massive 24.9% lead over the Barton 3200+. Recent versions of many Content Creation applications have been optimized for SSE2 and are generally very memory- and disk-intensive, which suits the Pentium 4 architecture. Hence, the substantial performance advantage over the AMD Athlon processors.
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