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The first set of "Real World"
benchmarks we ran with our Athlon XP 2700+ / nForce 2 combo,
were with ZD Labs' Business Winstone 2001 benchmark. Here's
a quote from ZD's eTestingLabs website detailing exactly
what this test is all about:
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Winstone
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Business Apps and a little
Content Creation |
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"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
SE, Windows NT 4.0 (SP6 or later), Windows 2000, 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."
Application used
in the Business Winstone tests include:
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Five Microsoft
Office 2000 applications (Access, Excel, FrontPage,
PowerPoint, and Word)
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Microsoft
Project 98
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Lotus Notes R5
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NicoMak WinZip
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Norton
Antivirus
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Netscape
Communicator
The Athlon's really seem to like
the applications that make up the Business Winstone 2001
suite. The Athlon XP 2700+ produced the highest
Business Winstone score we have seen to date. We were
within a hair of breaking 80 points, and saw the Athlon XP
2700+ outpace the 2.8GHz P4 by roughly 10%.
ZD's Content Creation
Winstone 2002 benchmark utilizes more memory bandwidth
hungry applications, which should favor the Pentium 4.
The application used in this suite are:
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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)
Here, the Pentium 4 was able
to turn the tables and surpass the Athlon XP 2700+ by 1.7
points. So far, the marriage of the nForce 2 and new
Athlon XP is showing significant might. We didn't have a
2800+ to benchmark, but it obviously it would have come
even closer, or perhaps even surpassed, the performance of
the 2.8GHz P4.
Next Up, MadOnion's PCMark2002 |