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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: |
Sysmark 2004
Sysmark is, as always, divided into Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity. The applications used for Sysmark2004 are:
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Adobe After Effects 5.5 Adobe Photoshop 7.01 Adobe Premiere 6.5 Discreet 3ds max 5.1 Macromedia DreamWeaver MX Macromedia Flash MX Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 Series |
Adobe Acrobat 5.0.5 Microsoft Access 2002 Microsoft Excel 2002 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Microsoft Outlook 2002 Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Network Associates McAffee VirusScan 7.0 ScanSoft Dragon Natural Speaking 6 Winzip Computing Winzip 8.1 |
The Overall score is probably the least interesting one, except for the bean counters, since it does not show what is really happening.
The two ExtremeEditions establish a solid lead here, which is not too surprising in view of the massive amounts of cache each CPU weighs in. Prescott and Northwood are at the same overall performance level at 3.2 GHz. However, Prescott scales better, which in this case means that the lower speedgrades area slowing down much more than in the case of the Northwood.
One of the buzzwords surrounding the Prescott is the "scalability", meaning that future speed grades will see higher performance gains than what the Northwood might achieve. To be honest, this statement leads into the same semantics as the question of whether a glass of water is half-full or half-empty. In other words, yes, with increasing clockspeed, the Prescott performance increases and eventually catches up with or exceeds Northwood. However, on the other hand, with lower clock speed, the performance hit is over-proportional.
Internet Content Creation
Overall, most of the content creation tasks depend on floating point and integer operations rather than on raw memory bandwidth and cache latencies. Prescott and Northwood, therefore, score about even.
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