Maui, re:<Sanders: "AMD 1.3GHz Athlon outperforms Intel's fastest Pentium 4 which runs at 1.7GHz. The only application where Intel has the advantage is running Quake 3."
Maui: ** Isn't the split close to 50-50 in terms of performance of 1.7P4 and 1.3Athlon?
From zdnet.de (ZDNet Germany), comparison of 1.33 DDR Athlon with 1.7 P4 is:
SPECint: Pentium 4, 9%
SPECfp Pentium 4, 37%
ZD Business Winstone 99 (NT 4.0) Athlon, 11%
ZD Business Winstone 2001 (NT 4.0) Athlon, 15%
ZD Content Creation Winstone 2000 (NT 4.0) Athlon, 3%
ZD Content Creation Winstone 2001 (NT 4.0) Athlon, 10%
ZD Highend Winstone 99 (NT 4.0) Athlon, 9%
3D Studio Max 1.1 (NT 4.0) Athlon, 31%
3D Studio Max 4.0 (NT 4.0) Athlon, 20%
ZD I-Bench 2.0 HTML Athlon, 71%
ZD I-Bench 2.0 PDF Athlon, 28%
ZD I-Bench 2.0 Java Pentium 4, 2%
ZD I-Bench 2.0 Javascript Athlon, 40%
ZD I-Bench 2.0 Flash Athlon, 5%
ZD I-Bench 2.0 Shockwave Pentium 4, 4%
Madonion 3DMark 2001 Pentium 4, 2%
Vulpine GLmark 1.1p Athlon, 14%
Quake 3 Arena NV15 demo 1024x768 Pentium 4, 4%
Aquanox Aquamark (DirectX) Athlon 6%
SPECviewPerf 6.1.2 Awadvs-04 Pentium 4, 5%
SPECviewPerf 6.1.2 DRV-07 Pentium 4, 3%
SPECviewPerf 6.1.2 DX-06 Pentium 4, 44%
SPECviewPerf 6.1.2 Light-04 Pentium 4, 20%
SPECviewPerf 6.1.2 MedMCAD-01 Athlon 18%
SPECviewPerf 6.1.2 ProCDRS-04 Pentium 4, 16%
Pentium 4 1.7 wins 11 benchmarks with an average advantage of 13% (146%/11)
Athlon 1.33 wins 14 benchmarks with an average advantage of 20% (284%/14)
Over all 25 benchmarks, the Athlon holds about a 5% lead.
I've seen SPECviewPerf split evenly when Windows 2000 is used; NT 4.0 seems to favor the P4.
But it's certainly not true that Quake is the only benchmark that Intel wins.
Petz |
