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To: jcholewa who wrote (59789)	10/23/2001 4:07:37 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

<font color=green>Emulation benchmarks revisited Running the same Windows Millennium based SoftMac 8.02 emulation tests as before, I've added the new results for the Athlon XP and Pentium III-M to the Benchmarks page. I've copied the relevant numbers here: {my Edit all machines have Win ME w/512MB RAM) AMD Athlon AMD Athlon XP Pentium III-M Pentium 4 1.2 GHz 1.53 GHz 1.2 GHz 1.5 GHz Word 5.1 Word Count (rounded) 4 s 3 s 4 s 6 s Photoshop Load 2.2M JPG file (rounded ) 19 s 17 s 19 s 23 s Floating Fractals 1000 iteration rendering (time in seconds) 27.37 s 23.0 s 26.4 s 82.0 s (not a typo!) Power Demo DayStars demo, default settings (time in seconds) 1.48 s 1.18 s 1.43 s 2.37 s Apple Personal Diagnostics Tests Integer 232.1 317.8 252.0 236.3 Complex Functions 1050.0 1327.0 1049.0 527.0 Floating Point 5 50.1 697.4 579.3 388.2 Memory 214.6 298.5 251.2 299.4 Processor 84.8 118.0 92.9 96.0 Video 45.0 58.5 43.9 30.2 Speedometer Tests CPU 133.1 173.0 192.2 173.0 Graphics 81.5 99.9 81.5 62.4 Disk 109.3 139.8 102.1 109.3 Math 487.0 615.4 536.7 346.4 FPU KWhetstones 20000 30000 20000 12000 FPU Matrix Multiply .300 s .233 s .300 s .467 s FPU FFT (seconds) .133 s .100 s .133 s .233 s FPU Average 24.0 33.2 24.0 14.7 Mix KWhetsones 5454 6666 6000 3333 Mix Dhrystones 88235 11111 96774 73170 Mix Average 221.6 278.4 236.3 174.1 Video Average 36.5 46.2 36.7 27.8 While I certainly expected the Athlon XP to win the emulation benchmarks hands down, it is still pretty amazing to see the huge margin by which it trounces the Pentium 4. At the same clock speed, roughly 1.5 GHz, the Athlon just eats the Pentium 4 for lunch. As you can see for yourself, the margin of victory in most of these tests is anywhere from an even tie to a good 50% to 100% faster. May I remind you again that CLOCK SPEED IS NOT EVERYTHING and that the code tested here (SoftMac 8.02 and Windows Millennium) is code which was written last year! Certainly not hand coded for the Athlon XP. Another demonstration of how the Athlon processor does a great job of running existing Windows code without any code rewrites. emulators.com