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The Multiplier Legacy Validating the New, Supporting the Old Apples to Apples and Clocks to Clocks System Disclosure, SiSoft Sandra Memory PCMark2002, A Different Perspective Benchmarks that won't: CodeCreatures, Comanche4 SPEC ViewPERF and diminishing returns Fraggin the Quake3 Arena Scores Expendable and the Chipset Frequency, 3DMark2001SE 3DMark2001SE: Behind the Looking Glass Profiling Performance, Will Barton Challenge Hammer? AMD Processor Steals |
| 333 MHz FSB for the Athlon The Unkept Promises | |
| (Review by MS, September 2, 2002) |
Spec ViewPERF 6.1.2
Despite the fact that ViewPERF 7.0 has been released, this last version constitutes too much of a bottleneck to qualify as a CPU / memory / FSB benchmark. Rather, we stick with the older 6.1.2 version, specifically Advanced Visualizer 0.4 (AWadvs.04) and Data Explorer 06 (DX 06) as both workloads are heavily dependent on memory and bus bandwidth.
AWadvs 0.4
A spread of roughly 15% between the fastest and the slowest setting gives enough granularity to place the 133/166 MHz setting. The largest boost in performance results from raw increase in memory bandwidth (11.5%). Increasing the FSB to 166 MHz raises the scores by another 3%.
DX06
DX06 shows the same trend but the gains are more pronounced, that is we are looking at over 17% total with a healthy additional 3.7 % performance increase from the faster FSB.
Considering that we hardly see anything in SiSoft Sandra memory benchmark, these results very convincingly show the power of the increased memory bus alone with the additional icing on the cake provided by the higher FSB.
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