Test Setup

There are two different ways to approach the benchmarks that we are going to show you.  The first is to try and look at each of the components that are changing on the new platform and attempt to evaluate them separately, if at all possible.  The other is to take this new Intel platform and simply compare the end result to the best that AMD is offering, and Intel’s previous line of products.  I attempted to do both for you, by providing you with the DDR2 and PCI Express performance pages before this one, and by providing you a good look at both sides of the picture here, in our full benchmark analysis as well. 

We compared the new Intel 560, 550 and 3.4 EE 775-pin processors to the Intel 3.4E (Prescott-core) 478-pin and the Athlon 64 FX-53 939-pin.  All these pin counts are going to drive me nuts…

Intel 925X and Socket 775 Platform: PCIe and DDR2 - Processors 82Intel 925X and Socket 775 Platform: PCIe and DDR2 - Processors 83

Here is the CPUID info for the Intel 560 processor.  Notice the new cores come up as Xeon processors, as the program doesn’t know what the CPUID is. 

Intel 925X and Socket 775 Platform: PCIe and DDR2 - Processors 84Intel 925X and Socket 775 Platform: PCIe and DDR2 - Processors 85

The same for the Intel 550.

Intel 925X and Socket 775 Platform: PCIe and DDR2 - Processors 86Intel 925X and Socket 775 Platform: PCIe and DDR2 - Processors 87

And for the 3.4 EE 775-pin processor.  It correctly identifies the cores on the EE processor.

Intel 925X and Socket 775 Platform: PCIe and DDR2 - Processors 88Intel 925X and Socket 775 Platform: PCIe and DDR2 - Processors 89

And finally, here are the results for hte 478-pin Pentium 4 3.4E Prescott processor. 

Here are the system setup tables for each of the three platforms being compared

Athlon 64 (939) Test System Setup

CPU

 Athlon 64 FX-53 @ 2.4 GHz

Motherboards

Asus A8V Deluxe K8T800 Pro Motherboard

Power Supply 

Antec 550W TrueControl

Memory 

2x512MB Corsair PC3200LL Pro Series

Hard Drive

40GB 7200RPM Western Digital EIDE

Sound Card

Creative Labs Live!

Video Card

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Video Drivers

NVIDIA 61.45

DirectX Version

DX 9.0b

Operating System

Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1

 

Pentium 4 (478) Test System Setup

CPU

Intel Pentium 4 @ 3.4 GHz (Prescott core)

Motherboards

Intel 875DP Motherboard

Power Supply 

Antec 550W TrueControl

Memory 

2x512MB Corsair PC3200LL Pro Series

Hard Drive

40GB 7200RPM Western Digital EIDE

Sound Card

Creative Labs Live!

Video Card

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Video Drivers

NVIDIA 61.45

DirectX Version

DX 9.0b

Operating System

Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1

 

Pentium 4 (775) Test System Setup

CPU

Intel 560 @ 3.6 GHz
Intel 550 @ 3.4 GHz
Intel P4 Extreme Edition @ 3.4 GHz

Motherboards

Intel 925XCV Motherboard

Power Supply 

Hipro 460 watt

Memory 

2x512MB Micron PC4300 DDR2

Hard Drive

40GB 7200RPM Western Digital EIDE

Sound Card

Creative Labs Live!

Video Card

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Video Drivers

NVIDIA 61.45

DirectX Version

DX 9.0b

Operating System

Windows XP w/ Service Pack 1

The benchmarks used were:

  • SiSoft Sandra 2003 Max3! and 2004 SP1
  • AIDA32
  • Cachemem
  • Quake III: Arena
  • Unreal Tournament 2003
  • X2: The Threat
  • 3D Mark 2001: SE v330
  • PC Mark 2002
  • Business Winstone 2004
  • Content Creation Winstone 2004
  • Sysmark 2004
  • Webmark 2004
  • LAME MP3 Encoding
  • XMPEG / DivX Encoding
  • WinRAR Compression
  • SPECviewperf 7.1
  • CineBench 2003
  • ScienceMark 2.0 Beta
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