To: combjelly who wrote (63808 ) 11/16/2001 12:52:05 PM From: Petz Read Replies (1) | Respond to Athlon XP outperforms P4-2GHz in new Sandra benchmarks>hexus.net Finally the Memory Benchmark. Before I show you the numbers, this new version of Sandra calculates the memory benchmark figures differently from all previous versions. It makes extensive use of data prefetch and buffering (not the data prefetch in Quantispeed, but it's own algorithm), uses buffering which is a common technique in memory intensive applications to ensure a steady flow of data and uses extra instruction sets like SSE heavily. These new Sandra numbers will become commonplace as soon as sites update their copies when the new version is released and you'll see a closer match between AMD and Intel system as far as the memory bench is concerned. We're happy to show you numbers from this beta version of Sandra as Adrian, the Sandra author notes that the beta we used was a genuine release candidate for the next stable version and the numbers will not change significantly.a 1.2MP running @ 1548Mhz (172Mhz FSB) on an EPoX 8KHA+ (KT266A) and giving memory benchmark numbers of 2607 ALU / 2365 FPU, overtaking the P4 by a large margin. However, that's on a heavily overclocked system, but shows the potential performance of such a system running that FSB.
