|
Advice Beginners BIOS Guide CPUs Links Mainboards Memory Network Storage Video/Sound Cards Contact Forum SiteMap Sponsors WebNews Home |
. | . |
Prices: Mainboards ABIT ASUS Chaintech Shuttle Soyo Tyan CPU Intel P4 2.4C-800 P4 2.6C-800 P4 2.8C-800 P4 3.0-800 P4 3.2-800 AMD AthlonXP XP 1700+ XP 2000+ XP 2400+ XP 2500+ XP 2700+ XP 3000+ XP 3200+ Athlon64 Athlon64 3200+ Athlon64 FX-51 Opteron Opteron 240 Opteron 242 Opteron 244 Opteron 246 Memory Corsair Crucial Kingston Mushkin OCZ |
LOSTCIRCUITS |
|
| AMD Athlon XP3000+ Cache me if you can.. | |
| (Review by MS, Feb 10, 2003) |
Performance Continued
Busines applications as those shown on the last page have the advantage of fitting most data into the caches. This is the reason why a larger cache will pay off big time in this case. ContentCreation applications abide by different rules, first of all, they involve streaming data which, by extension, means non-recurrent data and consequently there is little that can be stored in the cache. Therefore, it is not cache size that matters here but rather the overall memory bandwidth of the system and there, the Granite Bay is basically without competition. Maybe not?
Content Creation Winstone2002
Again, we keep hearing that this is an obsolete workload but then, we don't believe everything we hear either.
The P4 on the Granite Bay takes a marginal victory but only as long as HyperThreading is disabled. There is a good chance that the difference would be higher with more system memory. The 850E data points were taken from our original HT review using a dual channel Rambus system based on the Intel D850EMV mainboard with 2 x 256 MB PC1066 RDRAM and the 3.06 GHz P4.
Content Creation Winstone2003
The latest iteration of the (now) PC Mag benchmark emphasizes different aplications and appears to favor the P4 rather than the Athlon. On the other hand, if we show one, we have to show the other as well.
CCWS2003 is a clear homerun for the Pentium4. Moreover, the XP2800+ beats the XP3000+ by a slim margin (see explanation above)
So we have business applications, we have content creation, what we need are the games.
next page: => Comanche4, UT2003 =>
