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Recently, eTesting Labs released a new patch for Business
Winstone 2002, as well as a full revision release for
Content Creation Winstone 2003. Unfortunately, we were
unable to get the systems (either AMD based or Intel based)
to complete the CC Winstone 2003 tests, without crashing
during the benchmark. As a result, we only have
Business Winstone 2002 numbers and the older version of Content
Creation 2002.
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Winstone
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Business Apps and a little
Content Creation |
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Applications used
in the Business Winstone tests include:
- Five Microsoft Office 2002
applications (Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and
Word)
- Microsoft Project 2000
- Lotus Notes
- WinZip 8.0
- Norton AntiVirus
- Netscape Communicator
Here we've tested the 3GHz P4
with Hyperthreading enabled and disabled. This test
does run some applications simultaneously and as a result,
we do see an ever so slight performance edge for the HT
enabled P4. However, the scores are close enough to be
within the test's margin of error and this performance gain
is negligible. However, we do see the new 3GHz P4
overtakes the 2.8GHz chip as well as the Athlon XP 2800+ .
The Athlon still makes a very strong showing however, as
we've seen this test favors Athlons in general.
Applications
used in the Content Creation Winstone 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)
Here's a
situation that we theorized could in fact come to pass, with
certain legacy code and Hyperthreading. As you can
see, the HT enabled P4 actually scores lower than its non-Hyperthreaded
counterpart. This could be in part due to the fact
that, certain weightings of the benchmark scores, depending
on the application that is running in the foreground within
the test suite, are also being affected by
another application that is running in
the background. In this scenario, although the system
has perhaps a more balanced load on its overall resources
with HT enabled, since the test wasn't written to understand
this distribution of CPU resources, the overall score is
actually represented lower.
Again this is
just a theory of ours and we are looking into this question
further. However, we've been told that Content
Creation Winstone 2003 handles Multitasking much better.
It's too bad we were unable to get that benchmark to run on
any of our test systems.
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