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Posted: February 22, 2001 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Benchmarks (ZD Benchmarks) BAPCo SYSMark 2000 - Win2K SYSMark test memory bandwidth and is a good way to see how an overall system performs.  Although there’s not much difference here, the real kicker is that the two AMD SDRAM systems are doing quite well against a Pentium 4 RDRAM system. The increase speed from the 1.2GHz to the 1.33GHz Thunderbird seems to offer only a slight improvement. The scale in memory improvement isn’t much because both AMD systems are using PC133 SDRAM and the only increase was in processor speed so we don’t see a lot of improvements. ZD Content Creation Winstone 2000  Working with productivity apps, we can see the increase in performance scaling. The Thunderbird scales pretty well with a relatively minor increase in core speed. Considering that AMD is readying its 1.53GHz Thunderbirds, we can all expect to see more performance scaling across the board. Content Creation is a good way to test for integer performance and the Thunderbird excels in math computations very well. Higher core clock speeds always speed up overall integer and floating-point performance. This is where the jump in points came from. ZD High-End Winstone 99  The same improvements occur in high-end Winstone. We don’t get as much of an improvement here because the apps that run through this benchmark rely heavily on memory as well as overall speed. |
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