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Posted: June 5th, 2001 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Benchmarks SiSoft Sandra I’m using SiSoft Sandra CPU mark to test the relative performance of integer and floating-point calculations on Athlon MP. We know that the Athlon has a very strong floating-point unit and a strong integer unit as well. From my previous Athlon reviews, we noticed that the Athlon was the best performer in many office applications that relied heavily on integer performance.  Above we see the same trend in SiSoft CPU bench. The single 1.2GHz Athlon is already performing extremely well with integer calculations and when the dual MPs are used, performance shoots up even higher. From the graph above, we note that the dual Athlon MP setup leads the single Athlon by almost 21% and leads the Pentium 4 be a large 35%. Floating-point performance also increases significantly by an amazing increase of about 50%! Already we begin to see the potentials in floating-point intensive applications that are able to take advantage of dual processors.  In the memory benchmark, more strain is put on the 760MP chipset than the processors themselves. This is why the scores between the Athlon and Athlon MP are virtually the same. Both are using the 760MP memory architecture and therefore this test is really a test of memory/core-logic speed than processor speed. Still, it’s important to see the advantages that the 760MP offers above previous Athlon chipsets. The Pentium 4 system still leads the pack by a sizable margin thanks to its dual channel RDRAM configuration and 400MHz (100MHz*4) front-side bus speeds. Once AMD speeds up its FSB settings, we’ll get a better picture of who really has the lead. |
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