WAV, KribiBench, XviD, Raytracing
Another case of where pipeline length reigns supreme. 5MB of L2 cache wouldn't do too much here.
KribiBench, however, looks favourably on the Prescott core. You see, there are instances where the new design works well. It's quite conceivable that Intel could manufacture several instances of the Prescott, clock for clock, beating out the Northwood. We could do the opposite, too.
Another impressive (for an Pentium 4) showing in Realstorm's Raytracing benchmark. A 3.4GHz Prescott is almost 50% slower than a 2.4GHz AMD Athlon 64 FX-53, though. Shows just how unimportant pure MHz rating are becoming.
Prescott's favourite benchmark, and one that it tops by a small margin from the Extreme Edition Northwood. All those core tweaks have paid off in media encoding. Just imagine what a 20-stage pipeline Prescott would benchmark like.
