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We're still on
the fence when it comes to
MadOnion's PCMark 2002
tests. Like SiSoft SANDRA, the PCMark tests are
designed to isolate the performance of certain subsystems,
but they have a
"light-duty" feel and it's tough to translate the
scores into any real world scenarios.
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MadOnion PCMark
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Synthetic benchmarks using
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PCMark 2002's
CPU Performance Module runs the following tests.
CPU Test:
The Athlon XP 2700+ was again
outpaced by the 2.8GHz Pentium 4, but by a very small 210
point margin, with the 2600+ trailing by 250 points.
The Athlon XP 2700+ seems to live up to its branding,
posting performance numbers that nip right on the P4 2.8's
heels. PCMark 2002
Memory Test Technical details: (quoted from MadOnion
documentation)
"Raw read,
write, and read-modify-write operations are performed
starting from a 3072 kilobytes array decreasing in size to
1536 KB, 384 KB, 48 KB and finally 6 KB. Each size of block
is tested two second and the amount of accessed data is
given as result. In the STL container test a list of 116
byte elements is constructed and sorted by an integer
pseudo-random key. The list is then iterated through as many
times as possible for 2 seconds and the total size of the
accessed elements is given as result. There are 6 runs of
this test, with 24576 items in the largest run corresponding
to a total data amount of 1536 KB, decreasing in size to
12288 items (768 KB), 6144 items (384 KB), 1536 items (96
KB), 768 items (48 KB) and 96 items in the smallest run
corresponding to 6 KB of total data."
NVIDIA seems to have done an
excellent job with the nForce 2. In the PCMark2002
memory performance tests, the combination of the 2700+'s
higher bus speed and the nForce 2's memory controller, made
for some excellent scores. Our Athlon / nForce 2 combo
did fall 1782 points short of the P4 2.8GHz / PC1066 RDRAM
system, but was 1464 points ahead of the KT333 equipped
2600+ reference system.
Gaming Performance - Comanche, 3DMark & Quake 3
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