Benchmarks

This is our first 3200+ MHz rated processor here at WhiningDog, thus we have no other processors in the same class to compare against. We decided to pit this system up against a motherboard/processor review that we'll be delivering later this week - the Intel D845GERG2 MicroATX motherboard with the Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz processor with a 533MHz FSB. This isn't the fastest Pentium 4 processor and it doesn't even have the 800MHz FSB - yet it gives a good feel for what two 3GHz+ systems have to offer. There are other factors that should make the AMD system a screamer - the faster DDR memory (PC3200 vs. PC 2700), the faster AGP graphics card (as opposed to the integrated Intel Extreme Graphics system). Yet the price difference between the two systems amounts to around $150-200 dollars. What does this price difference buy you? Let's find out!

System 1:

• Shuttle SN85G4
• AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor
• 2 sticks of Crucial PC3200 DDR memory totaling 512MB
• Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
• Liteon DVD-ROM drive
• ATI Radeon 9600XT

System 2:

• Intel D845GERG2 MicroATX motherboard
• Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz processor with 533FSB and HT technology
• 1 stick of Crucial PC2700 DDR memory totaling 512MB
• 30GB Maxtor 7200 RPM Hard Drive
• Toshiba DVD-ROM drive
• Intel Extreme Graphics integrated chipset

NOTE: It's important to note that all these benchmarks are run with the HyperThreading Technology enabled on the Pentium 4 processor. This includes benchmarks that may be optimized for dual processor systems which is what an HT enabled Pentium 4 processor emulates. Thus CPU performance may appear to be higher in some instances for the Intel Pentium 4 processor because of the inclusion of two logical processors.

For some of the benchmarks, we also show what the performance is like with HT disabled to give you a different feel for what HT can do for you on an Intel platform.

Application Benchmarks

Multimedia Content Creation 2003

Higher scores are better. In a simulation of real world performance of multimedia applications, the SN85G4 easily beats out the Pentium 4 motherboard.

Business Winstone 2002

Higher scores are better. The same results are seen in business applications - the SN85G4 just dominates!

System Benchmarks

PC Mark 2002

Higher scores are better. Turning on or off HT doesn't make a difference to PC Mark 2002 Pro scores - whcih make sense since this benchmark doesn't utilize multi-processor systems. Notice that the Pentium 4 CPU beats the Athlon 64 - this could be the result of the lack of optimizations made to the benchmark for the new Athlon 64 processor.

PC Mark 2004

Higher scores are better. The updated PC Mark 2004 shows much more clearly that the SN85G4 is the faster system.

Sandra 2004 Benchmarks - CPU Arithmetic

Higher scores are better - Notice that when HT is enabled, the benchmark shows the Pentium 4 3.06GHz processor besting the AMD Athlon 64 at 3200+. However, turning off Hyper Threading shows that the Athlon 64 easily beats the Pentium 4 3.06.

Sandra 2004 Benchmarks - CPU Multimedia

Higher scores are better. What's interesting here is that the CPU Multimedia benchmark shows the Pentium 4 3.06GHz beating the Athlon 64 with or without HT enabled.

Sandra 2004 Benchmarks - File System

Sandra 2004 Benchmarks - Memory Performance

Higher scores are better. DDR400 clearly wins - no contest here.

ScienceMark 2 Beta

Lower scores are better. The Pentium 4 wins in the Molecular Dynamics test but otherwise loses in the other two tests.

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