Testing Procedure: A Comparison Of 13 Processors
Test Setup
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| Intel HardwareSocket 478 | |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Pentium 4/2000 MHz (400 MHz QDR FSB)Intel Pentium 4/1900 MHz (400 MHz QDR FSB)Intel Pentium 4/1800 MHz (400 MHz QDR FSB)Intel Pentium 4/1700 MHz (400 MHz QDR FSB)Intel Pentium 4/1600 MHz (400 MHz QDR FSB)Intel Pentium 4/1500 MHz (400 MHz QDR FSB)Intel Pentium 4/1400 MHz (400 MHz QDR FSB) |
| Motherboard | ASUS P4T-E (I850) Revision: 1.00 |
| Memory | 2 x 128 MB, RDRAM, 400 MHz, Viking |
| AMD HardwareSocket 462 | |
| Processor | AMD Athlon XP 1900+ MHz (1600/266 MHZ DDR)AMD Athlon XP 1800+ MHz (1533/266 MHZ DDR)AMD Athlon XP 1700+ MHz (1467/266 MHZ DDR)AMD Athlon XP 1600+ MHz (1400/266 MHZ DDR)AMD Athlon XP 1500+ MHz (1333/266 MHZ DDR)AMD Athlon 1400 MHz (1400/266 MHZ DDR) |
| Motherboard | Soltek (VIA KT266 A) SL75-DRV2 |
| Memory | 256 MB DDR-SDRAM, CL2, PC2100, Micron |
| General Hardware | |
| Graphics card | GeForce 3Memory: 64 MB DDR-SDRAMMemory clock: 400 MHzChip speed: 250 MHz |
| Hard drive | 40 GB, 5T040H4, MaxtorUDMA100 7200 rpm 2 MB Cache |
| Drivers & Software | |
| Graphics card driver | Detonator 4 Serie V21.85 |
| DirectX version | 8.1 |
| Operating system | Windows XP Final, Build 2600 (Englisch) |
| Benchmarks & Settings | |
| Quake III Arena | Retail Version 1.16command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to 'Normal'Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1' |
| 3DMark2000 | Version 1.1 Build 340 - default Benchmark |
| 3DMark2001 | Build 200 - default Benchmark |
| SiSoft Sandra 2001 | Professional Version 2001.3.7.50 |
| CINEMA 4D | CineBench 6.103 |
| mpeg4 encoding | Flask V0.6 (MPEG 3)DivX codec 4.02b codecCompression: 100Data Rate: 1500 kbit720x480 Pixel, 25 fpsno Audio |
| Studio 7 | Version 7.02.7 (MPEG 2) |
| Sysmark 2001 | Patch 3 |
| Lame | Lame 3.89 MMX, SSE, SSE 2, 3DNow |
| WinACE | 2.04, 178 MB Wave file, best compression,Dictonary 4096 kB |
| Newtek Lightwave | Rendering Bench SKULL_HEAD_NEWEST.LWS |
| Suse Linux 7.3 | Kernel 2.4.13 Compiling |
The picture shows the test system set-up for the AMD Athlon XP 1900+ processor. We've taken a different motherboard from the one we used in our last test, "Athlon XP Meets P4: A Comparison of All CPUs" . This new board is the Soltek SL75-DRV2, which proved to be slightly faster than the Epox board in some benchmark disciplines during our preparatory tests. It took some doing, but we worked out the benchmarks for all 13 processors again from scratch.
