SiSoft Sandra and Cachemem
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These two different memory tests showing a couple of different views on the Athlon XP 3000+ and the P4 3.06 processors. First, on the SiSoft test, the 333 MHz bus is really giving the 2700+ and the 3000+ a big leap over the older 2400+. The P4 has a strong showing coming out ahead on both ALU and FPU tests. The Cachemem results show that the P4 does indeed have a big advantage in the memory Read tests. The memory Write tests showed the Athlon XP 3000+ ahead of the pack.
The CPU tests on SiSoft Sandra are not showing much gains on the Athlon XP 3000+ and instead seems to depend very much on the frequency of the processor. The P4s have a strong showing here as the Hyper Threading test gives it a strong 18% lead over the competition. Without HT enabled, the 3.06 GHz P4 is nearly identical in ALU speed to the Athlon XP 3000+. Also notice the w/o SSE 2 section that gives the P4s score without the use of SSE2 instructions and shows that the Athlon XP has the lead on all the CPUs there.
Once again you notice that for the Athlon processors the frequency is the main factor in the results here and that is why the 3000+ doesn’t get an improvement over the 2700+. The HT option on the P4 does give Intel a nice lead on this synthetic benchmark as well.
