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Intel P4 Extreme Edition Cache Size Matters
(Review by MS, October 11, 2003)

Pentium 4 Extreme Edition Specs at One Glance

Clock Frequency
Transistor count
Interconnect process
Die Size
Cache Architecture
VCC Max
ICC Max
Max Power
TDP

3.2 GHz
~ 178 million
130 nm
237 mm²
8 kB L1 / 512 kB L2 / 2 MB 8-way set associative Write Through L3-Cache
(because of WT, there is no duplication of data in the different levels.
VCC Max 1.475 V
ICC Max 72.9 A
Max Power 103.9 W
TDP 93.9W

Test Configuration

Pentium 4 System Intel Pentium4 Extreme Edition 3.2GHz, P4 3.2C, 3.0C (800 MHz bus) ASUS P4P800 (Springdale), ABIT IC7 Max3 (Canterwood)* Intel Pentium4 (Northwood) 3.06 GHz, (533 MHz bus) ASUS P4G8X (Granite Bay) 2 x 512 MB Mushkin PC3200 Level2 DDR Memory Latencies: CL-2, tRCD-2 tRP-2 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (80GB) RAID Controller: ICH5-R SATA Stripe Size 16k Pioneer 12 x DVD	Athlon 64 FX-51 System AMD Athlon 64 FX-51, 2.2GHz ASUS SK8N 2 x 512 MB Mushkin Registered ECC DDR400 Memory Latencies: CL-2, tRCD-3 tRP-2 2 x Western Digital Raptor 10k RAID Controller: On board Promise PDC20378 Stripe Size 16k Sony DVD-R	Athlon XP3200+ System AMD Athlon XP3200+ ASUS A7N8X Deluxe ASUS A7N8X-X 2 x 512 MB Mushkin PC3200 Level2 DDR Memory Latencies: CL-2, tRCD-2 tRP-2 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 RAID Controller: On board SiliconImage S3112AR Stripe Size 16k Sony DVD-R
Graphics Adapters ATI RADEON 9800 Pro (128 MB) ATI Catalyst 3.7 ATI FireGL X1 FireGL drivers 78841
Operating System WindowsXP Professional Corp Ed. Service Pack 1a Microsoft Moviemaker2 Microsoft Patch: 312125 All necessary chipset drivers including Intel Application Accelerator for SATA RAID

Because of the lack of a parallel port, several applications would not run on the ABIT IC7 Max3, otherwise, the results were indistinguishable from those obtained with the ASUS P4P800 (within the margins of noise).

Benchmarking Software

Synthetic Tests
- SiSoftSandra Max
- Cachemem
Application Benchmarks
- Content Creation Winstone2003
- Business Winstone2002
Raytracing
- 3DSMax 5.0
- Cinebench
- AliasWavefront Maya5.0
- Electric Image Amorphium3.1
- Caligari Truespace5.1

Video Encoding
- Flask 6.0 with DivX 5.01
Gaming Benchmarks
- 3DMark2001SE 3.30
- 3DMark2003 3.20
- Aquamark3
- Comanche4
- GunMetal
- UnrealTournament2003 Retail Edition
- X2-The Threat
CAD Applications
- SPEC ViewPerf 7.0
- SPECapc for Maya5.0
- SPECapc for 3DSMax

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