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MadOnion's
new PCMark 2002 benchmarking suite, certainly holds promise
as an easy to use, "quick and dirty" sanity check on various
subsystem performance characteristics. In the
following tests, we chose to run their "CPU" and "Memory"
performance modules, which incorporate the following tests:
CPU Test:
- JPEG decompression
- Zlib compression &
decompression
- Text search
- MP3 Audio Conversion
- 3D Vector Calculation
Memory Test:
The Memory tests measure the
performance of the memory subsystem. Read, write,
read-modify-write, and random access operations are tested
on the system memory, L2 and L1 cache. These tests are
implemented in the same manner as memory accesses in normal
applications, and are not optimized to achieve maximum
throughput. However, since no other tasks are run while
performing the memory transfers, quite high throughput
numbers can be expected.
Technical details:
Raw read, write, and read-modify-write operations are
performed starting from a 3072 kilobytes array decreasing
insize 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.
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MadOnion PCMark 2002 Head to Head Performance
Progression |
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Something new from
the makers of 3DMark |
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"i850E, PC1066 and SiS645dx"
scores are representative of a 533MHz system bus
These test
results scale almost exactly as one would expect, with the
2.53GHz Pentium 4 based systems taking the lead by
comfortable margins. Again, the PC1066 driven systems
with 533MHz system busses, have the best of both worlds,
high FSB speeds and 1/3 more system memory bandwidth and the
scores show this advantage. Additionally, the SiS645dx
chipset shows it is more than capable to compete with the
i850E in this test.
However, let's
take a look at overall system memory bandwidth and see if
low latency DDR333 can keep pace with RDRAM in the Memory
Test.
"i850E, PC1066 and SiS645dx"
scores are representative of a 533MHz system bus
We're not sure
what happened to the Athlon XP 2100+ here but it was totally
man handled by both the RDRAM i850 and i850E systems, as
well as the DDR333 based SiS645dx board. Clearly, this
test takes into account not just DRAM bandwidth but also
front side bus bandwidth. In this regard, the Pentium
4 architecture has a significant advantage over the Athlon,
in this test. Additionally, it's obvious to note that
PC1066 RDRAM systems made the strongest showing, with the
2.4GHz PC1066 setup almost overtaking the 2.53GHz i850E.
Let's step back
out of the synthetic benchmarks however and step back into
the "real world", with some Professional 3D Rendering and
Multimedia Encoding work.
Flask
MPEG w/ DIVX and Lightwave 7
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