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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)

One of the prime examples for the Prescott showing off some potential has been MDK2. Arguably, the game is a few years old but it does not reallly matter since OpenGL has not migrated to a new level of standards, moreover, the benchmark is heavily CPU dependent rather than limited by the graphics card used. In other words, MDK2 is a perfect candidate for looking at the performance and scaling of two members of the same processor family.

   

The system comparison on the left clearly shows that the graphics card is not the bottleneck here, on the contrary, with the same graphics card, we were able top run about twice as fast, MDK2 does profit from larger caches, which is evident from the P4EE scores and, therefore, the Prescott gets a lot of mileage out of this application. However, interestingly, the Northwood-based P4(C) (periwinkle) scales better with speed than the Prescott.

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