Performance Benchmarks :

SiSoft Sandra :

	Intel P4 1.7 SDR	Athlon 1.4 DDR
Dhrystone (Int)	3200	3816
Whetstone (FPU)	1009 (2085-SSE2)	1899

The Duron 1.3 falls just short of the Pentium 4 1.7 (i845 SDR) on integer performance but well and truly stomp on it with its Whetstone floating point prowess. Even with its SSE-2 optimisations the P4 doesn't pull away by a huge margin. The Duron comes within a respectable distance of the Athlon 1.4 scores which is quite an achievement.

 

 

	Intel P4 1.7 SDR	Athlon 1.4 DDR
Integer MMX	6751	7798
Floating Point	8164 (SSE2)	9468 (3DNow)

A very strong set of figures from a processor created to cater to the budget/mainstream market. Again we see scores not too far off those of the Athlon 1.4 and better than the P4 1.7 for integer calculations. The Intel edges the FPU win but not by a huge amount.

 

POV-Ray Chess2 Render :

For this particular test, POV-Ray is used to render the Chess2 scene at 800x600 - AA 0.3. The times quoted are total times taken to render the scene and therefor lower is better.POV-Ray is almost entirely CPU driven and so forms a pretty accurate reflection of general performance levels.

I don't think there's anything I can say that isn't perfectly well explained in the graph itself.

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