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ContentCreation Winstones
ContentCreation Winstones have swayed between AMD and Intel-based systems over the past years. ContentCreation Winstone 2001 was a clear homerun for the AMD processors, CCWS2002 originally favored the P4 but then AMD gained the upper hand and ContentCreation 2003 has, thus far, been a huge victory for the P4. Keep in mind that ContentCreation applications involve massive I/O traffic to the virtual memory and this is where disabling APIC could make a big difference. For comparison, we have numbers with and without APIC mode enabled to show the effect.
ContentCreation Winstone2002
ContentCreation Winstone 2002 shows a huge improvement in the scores when APIC is disabled. We also ran the benchmark with and without the patch that is specifically geared towards ContentCreation Winstone 2002 and there was no difference whatsoever. In fact, we ran CCWS2002 three times in each configuration and on both the Rev 1.2 and the Rev 2.0 board and the highest overall scores were obtained without the patch. The higher score for the P4 2.8GHz stems from the fact that this processor is not HT capable and was, therefore, run without HT. (A): APIC Mode enabled
ContentCreation Winstone2003
CCWS2003 is where the real surprise occurred. ~20% higher scores for APIC disabled systems is absolutely huge and the fact that the Canterwood-powered P4 3.0GHz still keeps the lead hardly matters in this respect. (A): APIC Mode enabled
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