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To: tejek who wrote (125749)	10/10/2000 10:14:42 PM
From: milo_morai	Respond to of 1570917

<font color=Purple>New Pentium 4 Benchmarks Revealed (INTEL) Posted By Brian Neal Tuesday, October 10, 2000 - 5:54:08 PM For one of the first comparisons we have seen with benchmarks of the Pentium 4 at similar clock-rates, PC2000 has published results for a 1.2 GHz Pentium 4 ES. Also included for comparison are results from a 1.13 GHz Pentium III (which has now been recalled) and a 1.1 GHz Athlon. The Pentium 4 ES system was equipped with a P4 Reference motherboard using Intel's i850 dual-channel DRDRAM chipset (Intel 82850). A 32 MB GeForce2 GTS was used for the testing. While they did try NVIDIA's Detonator3 v6.18 drivers, which include SSE2 optimizations, none of the 3D benchmarks would run reliably. So, the benchmarks were run with Detonator 2 v5.22. System Configurations CPU 1.2 GHz Pentium 4 ES 1.13 GHz Pentium III 1.1 GHz Athlon Motherboard P4 Reference Intel VC820 ASUS A7V Memory 256 MB DRDRAM (PC800) 128 MB DRDRAM (PC800) 128 MB SDRAM ZD Benchmarks Benchmark Pentium 4 ES Pentium III Athlon CPUMark 99 (WinME) 75.2 95.4 97.4 FPUMark (WinME) 4090 6010 6040 CPUMark 99 (Win2000)75.8 97.8 98 FPUMark (Win2000) 4160 6010 6070 Busnss Winstone 99 (WinMe)26.9 35.1 31.7 Busnss Winstone 99 (Win2000)38.6 42.8 43.7 CC Winstone 2000 (Win2000) 48.2 39.7 37.9 As you can see from these results, the 1.2 GHz Pentium 4 trails the 1.13 GHz Pentium III and 1.1 GHz Athlon in most of the ZD benchmarks. The major exception seems to be Winstone Content Creation, in which the Pentium 4 captures the lead by a respectable margin. As you will notice in the system configuration table above, the Pentium 4 system is equipped with 2 128 MB PC800 RIMMs, as is required by the dual-channel i850 chipset. The Pentium 4's extra bandwidth (3.2 GB/s) seems to pay off in this benchmark, and potentially the extra memory capacity is helping as well. 3DMark 2000 Resolution Pentium 4 ES Pentium III Athlon 640x480x16 Z16 8649 9132 9036 800x600x16 Z16 7993 8610 8063 1024x768x16 Z16 6789 7341 6953 1280x1024x16 Z16 5085 5518 5098 A while back, it was leaked that the 1.4 GHz Pentium 4 was about 1.08 times faster than the 1 GHz Pentium III in 3DMark 2000. These results seem to hold up that earlier report, as the Pentium 4 system comes in dead last in this benchmark. It was reported some time ago that Intel was working with MadOnion to introduce a new version of 3DMark, dubbed 3DMark 2001, which was specially optimized for the Pentium 4. Quake 3 (Demo1) Resolution Pentium 4 ES Pentium III Athlon 640x480 (16-bit) 148.4 131.5 125.2 800x600 (32-bit) 121.2 125.5 117 1024x768 (32-bit) 79.5 97 93.2 Despite an early lead in the 640x480x16 timedemo, which is the least fillrate-bound, these results are interesting because the Pentium 4 seems to have a more pronounced performance curve...falling off further than the other two systems as the resolution is increased to 1024x768. The system still leads the 1.1 GHz Athlon at 800x600, but the jump to 1024x768 seemingly puts it behind the pack by more than 10 FPS. Expendable Resolution Pentium 4 ES Pentium III Athlon 640x480 (16-bit) 78.15 101.14 99.57 800x600 (32-bit) 77.84 101.55 99.33 1024x768 (32-bit) 75.55 96.48 95.24 As a Direct3D benchmark, Expendable's results are very similar to 3DMark 2000. The Pentium III holds the lead over the Athlon by a hair (literally one or two FPS), while the Pentium 4 trails both by a good 20 FPS. The PC2000 review, including all benchmarks, is available below. Unfortunately, it's in Chinese, so it is unlikely to be of much use to anyone who can't read it: P4 Review Page 1 P4 Review Page 2 P4 Review Page 3 P4 Review Page 4 P4 Review Page 5 P4 Review Page 6 P4 Review Page 7 Finally, I'd like to give Per a huge thanks for taking the time to scan the article and send it to us. Thanks! >> Discuss this Topic on General: 27 Comments in Thread aceshardware.com P4 is a Dog, it's only saving grace is it will clock higher than PIII. Milo