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LOSTCIRCUITS	SHORTCUTS: Top Page Die Shrinks and Leakage Currents Test Setup Amorphium3 Cinebench 2003 I Cinebench 2003 II MDK2 3DMark2001SE Comanche4 Unreal Tournament 2003 X2 Sysmark 2004 Sysmark2004 continued Conclusions Prescott 3.0 Pricing Give Us Some Feedback to Improve our Reviews
Intel Pentium4 "Prescott" To Scale or not to Scale, that is our question.
(Review by MS, May. 23, 2004)

Nobody I know likes to wade through endlessly filing benchmarks, therefore, we make the presentation of the detailed Sysmark2004 scores as short and sweet as possible.

   

Internet Content Creation Overall and 3D Creation

   

2D Creation and Web Publishing

   

Office Productivity Overall and Communications

   

Document Creation and Data Analysis

It is rather obvious that the Prescott finds a perfect overall match in Sysmark2004, at least with respect to showing off the scalability of its performance with clock speed. (Click thumbnails for full picture. Note that results for the P4 2.8C (Northwood) are not included here)

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