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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (174539)	5/13/2003 11:27:38 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Intel cherry picked benchmarks: Our first Photoshop test employed 20 commonly used filters--most of them specified by Adobe and by PC World's art department, with a few chosen from Intel's recommendations. Since Photoshop is a multithreaded application, we expected some improvement with Intel's new technology, but the Athlon XP PC beat the P4 and Xeon systems regardless of hyperthreading status. The Dell PC received a 2-point boost from hyperthreading--the largest among the P4s here, but scarcely noticeable by most users. In a second round of Photoshop tests, we used 20 filters selected by Intel to showcase its technology. Using these filters, which often incorporate intermediate calculations that hyperthreading can run in parallel, the P4 machines did show marked improvement. For example, the Dimension 8250 completed the test in 118 seconds with hyperthreading turned off (slower than the Athlon XP system's 104 seconds), but reduced its time to 96 seconds with the feature turned on--certainly a significant improvement. pcworld.com