Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, PCMark04
PC Magazine Business Winstone 2004
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Source: Zdnet |
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Business
Winstone 2002 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a
PC's overall performance when running today's top-selling Windows-based 32-bit
applications on Windows 98, Windows 2000 (SP6 or later), Windows Me, or Windows
XP. Business Winstone doesn't mimic what these packages do; it runs real
applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC
takes to complete those activities to produce its performance scores.
| Business Winstone 2004 Benchmark Results |
| Processor |
Score |
Ranking |
| Athlon64 3200+ |
22.5 |
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| Athlon64 3400+ |
23.3 |
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| Athlon64 FX-51 |
23.2 |
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| Pentium4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition |
23.0 |
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| Pentium4 3.2GHz Northwood |
22.5 |
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| Pentium4 3.2GHz Prescott |
22.4 |
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Although the Pentium 4 is known for coursing through media
applications, its alacrity with integer code is a little less celebrated.
Despite an improved architecture, the Prescott core is still outperformed by its
predecessor, quite likely a consequence of the longer execution pipeline. AMD
actually sweeps Business Winstone 2004 with the Athlon 64 FX-51 and Athlon 64
3400+, placing first and second place, respectively.
| PC Magazine Content Creation Winstone
2004
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Source: Zdnet |
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Content
Creation Winstone 2002 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that
measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit,
content creation applications on Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, or
Windows XP.
| Content Creation Winstone 2004 Benchmark
Results |
| Processor |
Score |
Ranking |
| Athlon64 3200+ |
29.2 |
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| Athlon64 3400+ |
30.8 |
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| Athlon64 FX-51 |
32.3 |
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| Pentium4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition |
30.7 |
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| Pentium4 3.2GHz Northwood |
29.9 |
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| Pentium4 3.2GHz Prescott |
30.1 |
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The situation improves slightly in Content Creation 2004,
where Prescott manages to best the comparably clocked Northwood core. Both
processors are also able to outpace AMD's Athlon 64 3200+, which trails only
slightly. The 3.2GHz Extreme Edition succumbs to both AMD's Athlon 64 FX-51 and
its Athlon 64 3400+
PCMark
can be used on desktop PC's, Laptops and even Workstations and tests everyday
computing from home to office usage. PCMark specifically stresses the CPU,
memory subsystem, graphics subsystem, hard drives, WindowsXP GUI, video
performance and even laptop batteries.
| PCMark2004 Benchmark Results |
| CPU |
PCMarks |
Ranking |
| Athlon64 3200+ |
3802 |
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| Athlon64 3400+ |
4168 |
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| Athlon64 FX-51 |
Failed |
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| Pentium4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition |
4936 |
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| Pentium4 3.2GHz Northwood |
4902 |
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| Pentium4 3.2GHz Prescott |
4926 |
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| Memory |
PCMarks |
Ranking |
| Athlon64 3200+ |
3646 |
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| Athlon64 3400+ |
3862 |
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| Athlon64 FX-51 |
5564 |
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| Pentium4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition |
5166 |
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| Pentium4 3.2GHz Northwood |
4718 |
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| Pentium4 3.2GHz Prescott |
5059 |
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PCMark04
is the latest synthetic benchmark from Futuremark. Whereas real-world metrics
are intended to convey the performance you can expect in a given application,
synthetic tests like these push harder a bit further, testing its theoretical
limits. As you can see in the overall score, Prescott edges out the Northwood
core. Interestingly, each and every Intel processor lays waste to the AMD64
line. When you take into consideration how the Athlon family has performed up
until now, its hard to weigh these results heavily.
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