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Posted: June 5th, 2001 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Benchmarks (cont.) SysMark 2000  SysMark was never intended to be used as a performance gauge for multi processor systems. Instead it’s a good indication of how well a MP system will perform with multiple applications loaded. We see above that the Athlon MP system does quite well compared to the other SP systems, particularly the 1.2GHz Athlon. The dual 1.2GHz Athlon system performs well but doesn’t quite reach the peak that the Athlon MP system reaches. This is due to the enhanced cache scheme that is present in the Athlon MP. All the snooping and retrieving functions present in the Athlon MP weren’t designed into the regular Athlon, so we see the MP take the lead. SysMark Internet Creation The Internet Creation portion of SysMark deals with heavy multimedia content as well as graphic content. We all know that these two contents are bandwidth intensive and once again, is a test of the 760MP chipset rather than the Athlon MP itself.  Here we see the two Athlon MPs take the lead from a single Athlon 1.2GHz by a huge margin. The 760MP definitely has a lot going for it in terms of bandwidth and scalability. Currently using PC2100 DDR RAM, it would be incredible to see AMD push the next chipset to a 400MHz FSB while at the same time, going with a speedier 4 channel DDR solution. If it’ll happen, we’ll be seeing huge improvements from the already impressive scores we see above. The Pentium 4 here takes the lead in front of the single Athlon thanks to its dual channel RDRAM configuration. Obviously this is a sign that memory and FSB configuration is extremely important for multimedia applications that are also doing other bandwidth intense things at the same time. |
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