Office Productivity	Source: Zdnet

Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications in Windows XP.

Office Productivity:
Business Winstone 2004:	Points	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	25.3
Intel Pentium D 940	27.4
AMD Athlon64 FX-62	36.4
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+	33
AMD Sempron 3600+	26.4
Intel Pentium M 740	23.7
Content Creation 2004:	Points	Ranking
Intel Pentium D 840	33.7
Intel Pentium D 940	33.8
AMD Athlon64 FX-62	46.2
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+	41.4
AMD Sempron 3600+	32.4
Intel Pentium M 740	29.6

The Office Productivity tests put the Pentium M 40 processor in an even better light. In fact this little mobile chip is nipping at the heals of the AMD Sempron 3600+ and Intel's own Pentium D 840/940 processors! The Pentium M architecture sure has a lot of power even though the chip is only running at 1.73 GHz.

SiSoft Sandra 2005	Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark Results
	Multimedia Benchmark		CPU Benchmark		Memory Benchmark
Processors	Integer SSE2:	Floating-Point SSE2:	Dhrystone SSE2:	Whetstone SSE2:	Integer SSE2:	Float SSE2:
Intel Pentium D 840	35981	42592	17318	4586 FPU / 7891 SSE2	5076	5071
Intel Pentium D 940	36005	42695	16953	4596 FPU / 7899 SSE2	5087	5087
AMD Athlon64 FX-62	52689	57918	23702	8899 FPU / 11522 SSE2	7068	6985
AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+	48914	53776	22005	8196 FPU / 10698 SSE2	6632	6563
AMD Sempron 3600+	19154	20604	8454	3144 FPU / 4105 SSE2	5429	5373
Intel Pentium M 740	16458	18147	7396	3071 FPU / 3916 SSE2	2947	2942
Units:	it/s	it/s	MIPS	MFLOPS	MB/s	MB/s

SiSoft Sandra numbers are certainly interesting to look at. The Pentium M 740 does not do very well in this benchmark and the numbers look quite low. Real world performance is obviously different. Even though the Pentium M 740 uses DDR2, it's a single channel memory controller which is why memory bandwidth is so low.