Random Phrase: Home is where you hang your @...


Read Me First!

This is the Spode's Abode archive. The old articles and forum have been kept here purely for historical purposes and are no longer updated.

Not all portions of this archive may work as expected.


Please visit the new site.



Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz with HyperThreading (Northwood)
Written by Peter Barnard (23/06/2003)
Page 3 of 3
Supplied By: Intel

Untitled Document

Benchmarks

The benchmarks were run on an Intel D865PERL motherboard, which uses the Springdale chipset. The nForce 2 system was run at 1.75ghz with a 166FSB. This does not equate to any retail processor, and it is not even close to the best AMD offering - but if they had sent us one we wouldn't have this problem... These figures are added mostly to give a little perspective to the other scores. All tests were run with a gigabyte of Dual DDR 400 (thanks to Overclock.co.uk). The Radeon 8500 was run at stock speeds, and the Geforce 4mx 420 was run with 442/315 ram/clock. The standard settings were 333/250.

3dMark 2001se Radeon 8500
1024x768
1280x1024
3ghz p4
10470
7924
3.2ghz p4
10479
7726
3296mhz p4
10783
8028
1750mhz XP
9198
-

 

3dMark 2001se Geforce 4mx 420
1024x768
1280x1024
3ghz p4
5456
3604
3.2ghz p4
5484
3595
3296mhz p4
5510
3606
1750mhz XP
5372
-

Bearing in mind that 3dmark has a margin of error of about 100 points, these scores still show a small benefit from the extra 200mhz, but hardly measureable. It is more likely that the rather out of date graphics card is causing a bottle neck.

SYSmark 2002
Internet Content Creation
Office Productivity
p4 3.2ghz
423
173
1.75ghz XP
229
153

Sisoft Sandra
Multimedia CPU benchmark
Arithmetic CPU benchmark
Integer iSSE2
Float iSSE2
Dhrystone ALU
Whetstone FPU
3ghz p4
13787 it/s
22150 it/s
9075 MIPS
5649 MFLOPS
3.2ghz p4
14701 it/s
2364 it/s

9793 MIPS

6170 MFLOPS
3296mhz p4
15183 it/s
24387 it/s
9808 MIPS
6359 MFLOPS

The Sandra CPU benchmark scores are exactly as expected, with the numbers exactly in proportion to the clock speed.

Conclusion

The clock rate of the 3.2ghz p4 is 6.6% faster than the previous top of the range chip, the 3ghz model. And surprise surprise, it performs 6.6% faster. Now according to this article in the register, It will sell at 637 US dollars. The 3ghz chip sells at 437 US dollars. You are getting 6.6% more speed, and a 47% larger dent in your wallet. You don't need a Pentium 4 to work that one out.

Peter Barnard


<< Back | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | Next >>



Copyright Andrew Miller
Please read our disclaimer

Search the site:

Random

Globalwin Silent Stream CPU Water Cooler