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Posted: June 5th, 2001 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Benchmarks (cont.) DPI Overall Performance  Above we see an overall score for the dual Athlon MP system. Once again, DPI bench isn’t very parallel in every instance and so the dual Athlon system follows behind closely. From this ZD test alone, we can almost conclude that the Pentium 4 is really only a gaming CPU, and it actually gets beaten by a single Athlon system in most games. This should change quickly as more developers jump onto the SSE2 bandwagon and this should definitely happen thanks to the recent announcement made by AMD that it will include SSE2 in the upcoming Hammer processor line. Already including SSE in the Athlon MP is good indication of where developers will follow. For now though, a dual Athlon MP system reigns supreme in productivity applications. Photoshop PSBench PSBench is a small Photoshop benchmark utility that applies a bunch of different filters to a large image and calculates how long it takes to do each filter and then the overall time of the entire processor.  The performance numbers really speak for themselves here folks. The filters in Photoshop are multi-threaded and take good use of multiple processors even though Photoshop itself doesn’t, at least not very much. Here the dual Athlon MP system blows the competition away and takes a 46% lead over a single Athlon system. The dual regular Athlon configuration does quite well here too as does the Pentium 4 system. While the ALU units in the Pentium 4 are weaker than the Athlon’s, it still performs well thanks to the 6.0.1 patch which contains enhanced code. |
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