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The Test Setup:::...
AMD
Athlon64 3400+
MSI K8T Neo
(Via K8T800)
Asus Radeon
9600XT
2x256Mb Corsair
XMS3500
40Gb Seagate
Barracuda IV HDD
AMD Approved
550w PSU
Compare
Setup:::...
AMD
Barton 3200+
Abit nF7-S
Asus Radeon
9600XT
2x 256Mb Corsair
XMS3500
40Gb Barracuda
IV HDD
AMD Approved
550w PSU
Windows
XP Pro for both.
The Benchmarks:::...
SiSoft Sandra 2004
Sciencemark
3DMark2001SE
3DMark03SE - Build330
PCMark2002
POV-Ray 3.5
SiSoft Sandra 2004:::...
I
decided to use the CPU Arithmetic, CPU Multimedia,
Memory Bandwidth and Memory and Cache benchmarks so
as to cover all aspects of the platforms performance.
As
can be seen here, the 3400+ pulls away drastically
from the XP3200+ in terms of performance, the differences
in performance are huge!
Looking
at these results does bring into question what has
happened, as the XP3200+ actually scores marginally
better in the ‘Integer’ scores. Although looking at
the other results of the other compared CPUs, it does
look more of a problem with Sandra than anything else.
The
memory bandwidth here whilst being very nice, and
high performing, seems wrong; again I’ll put it down
to the software.
These
results here show that the 3400+ really comes into
it’s own once it passes the 512kB stage of the benchmark.
Once it hits this stage, it REALLY outshines the XP3200+!
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