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| Intel Pentium4 "Prescott" Strained to the Silicon | |
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(Review by MS, Feb. 1, 2004) |
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Intel Prescott Starting at: |
Unreal Tournament, MDK2
We skip the Flyby since all it shows is the performance of the graphics card whereas the botmatch benchmark mostly depends on CPU and memory subsystem:
The differences are not huge but the Prescott is clearly slower than the Northwood
MDK2
Miracles do happen, MDK2 is one of the benchmarks that usually showed the P4 as a rather weak performer and here is where Prescott shows the highest performance gain of any gaming application we have looked at. In this case, the extra performance is clearly attributable to the larger L2 cache, the ExtremeEdition with the extra L3 cache shows even more performance gain compared to the Northwood.
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