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| DFI 855GME-MGF and Intel Pentium M 735 Along came a Dothan | |
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(Review by MS, Jan 2, 2005) |
3D Rendering
One of the issues that apparently plagues benchmarks centers around applications that may be optimized for one or the other CPU or architecture. In a nutshell, there may be some truth to that but in reality, a lot more simply depends on the actual workload, that is, the model that is being rendered. A classic example is the benchmark suite of 3ds max, comprising CBalls, Single Pipe and Underwater World among others, all of which are dominated by the P4's Netburst architecture. That does not necessarily mean, however that 3ds max is optimized for the P4, the models maybe .. or it could have been the other way around....
There is not much explanation necessary here, the P4 rules but keep in mind that the models rendered are basically using some predefined objects that are transformed and lit and all of that is essentially integer computation. Note that the larger cache does not buy the Dothan anything compared to the Banias here.
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Pentium M 735 (Dothan 1.7 GHz) |
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