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To test "real
world" Business Desktop application performance, we used ZD
Labs' Business Winstone 2002 v1.0.1 benchmark. We'll
directly quote ZD's eTestingLabs website for an explanation
as to exactly what this test is comprised of:
"Business Winstone is a system-level, application-based
benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when
running today's top-selling Windows-based 32-bit
applications on Windows 98, Windows 2000 (SP2 or later),
Windows Me, or Windows XP. Business Winstone doesn't mimic
what these packages do; it runs real applications through a
series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes
to complete those activities to produce its performance
scores."
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Benchmarks With Business Winstone 2002 |
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Real World Application Performance |
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The Business
Winstone 2002 tests include:
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Five
Microsoft Office 2002 applications (Access, Excel,
FrontPage, PowerPoint, and Word)
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Microsoft
Project 2000
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Lotus Notes
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WinZip 8.0
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Norton
Antivirus
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Netscape
Communicator
The Athlon 64
FX-51 decisively outperformed the competition in the
Business Winstone 2002 benchmark. It's first place
score of 43.7 put it 13.2% ahead of the second place
finisher, the 3.2GHz Extreme Edition P4. Athlons have
always been strong performers in this test. Seeing the
Athlon 64 FX-51 with an 18.4% clock-for-clock performance
advantage over the 3200+ was very impressive and
substantiated the very "snappy" and responsive feel that our
Athlon 64 FX-51 test system had.
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Benchmarks With Content Creation Winstone 2002 |
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Real World Content Creation Application
Performance |
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Next we ran some
tests with ZD's Content Creation Winstone 2002 v1.0.1.
This benchmark also run a series of scripted activities
similar to the Business Winstone tests, but the applications
used in the Content Creation tests are far more "bandwidth
hungry". The applications used in the Content Creation
Winstone 2002 tests include:
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Adobe
Photoshop 6.0.1
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Adobe
Premiere 6.0
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Macromedia
Director 8.5
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Macromedia
Dreamweaver UltraDev 4
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Microsoft
Windows Media Encoder 7.01.00.3055
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Netscape
Navigator 6/6.01
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Sonic Foundry
Sound Forge 5.0c (build 184)
We saw more of
the same in the Content Creation Winstone 2002 benchmark.
The Athlon 64 FX-51 outpaced the Extreme Edition 3.2GHz
Pentium 4 by about 15%, which beat the standard 3.2GHz P4 by
approximately 9%. Once again, the FX-51 posted a
Winstone score that was strikingly 18.9% faster, than the
similarly clocked Athlon XP3200+. The advances AMD has
made with the Athlon 64 FX-51 have paid huge dividends.
Gaming and real world Business Application performance, with
the Athlon 64 FX-51, is fantastic.
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Benchmarks With CliBench MKIII SMP |
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Number Crunching |
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CliBench is a
simple benchmark suite, portions of which were self
developed by
Daemonware, while others are slightly modified versions
of industry standard benchmarks. With CliBench, users
can check their CPU, FPU and memory performance. It is
also fully multithreaded, so you can easily check SMP
systems with up to 128 processors. We ran all of
CliBench's processor tests on all of the tests system,
configured to use 2 threads.
You'd think that
with the multithreaded nature of this benchmark, the
Hyperthreading enabled Pentium 4 would have an advantage,
but that did not turn out to be the case. The
Dhrystone 2.1, Matrix Operations and Floating point tests
belonged to the FX-51, while the P4 excelled in the
Whetstone and Number Crunch tests. The Athlon XP 3200+
even pulled off a win in the Eight Queens Problem. The
memory throughput test seems to have hit its limit with this
current generation of hardware, maxing out on the P4 and
FX-51.
64-Bit Windows XP Running 32-Bit Apps
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