Benchmarks II
PC Mark 2002 Another theoretical benchmark PC Mark attempts to provide an all round comparison of one PC against another. For the purposes of this review we have ignored the Hard Drive performance part of the test and concentrated on the CPU and memory results.
Here we saw a marked improvement in memory performance from the L2 cache. The CPU scores however were more reliant on pure Mhz to produce results. As in Sandra the P4 3.06 produces significantly higher results in both tests. So far the Barton does not seem to get close to the P4’s capabilities. These are still only theoretical tests though.
PiFast
The Pifast test pushes the numeric performance of the processor and we expected to see the L2 cache having a big effect. In fact the results were very close in all cases with the larger L2 cache P4 and Barton just ahead of the XP2800. We expected a great deal more in this test from the XP3000+
HEXUS Seti
Seti tests the performance of the processor while working flat out performing mathematical calculations over a length of time. L2 cache should affect performance as it ensures that the processor has a queue of instructions to complete at hand. We have seen in previous tests that the Intel processors are not as efficient in this test as the Athlon and this proved the case again. Even running at stock speeds the XP3000+ showed an improved performance on its higher speed relative.
