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Intel Pentium4 "Prescott" To Scale or not to Scale, that is our question.
(Review by MS, May. 23, 2004)

So far, all we have seen that the Prescott scales with frequency and sometimes does that better than the Northwood, however, there is certainly no rule that can be established from the results shown so far. The reason is in most benchmarks that they are running from memory rather than talking advantage of the larger cache that would provide Prescott with the edge needed to overcome the higher latencies. The situation may be very different, though, in business applications that will take advantage of the larger L2 cache and as example, we are taking a look at Sysmark 2004.

Sysmark 2004 shows the Prescott "scaling" ahead of Northwood at the higher speedgrades, which is a matter of the larger L2 cache that partially eliminates the memory bottleneck.

If we look at the isolated P4 family results, the situation becomes even more obvious.

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