Athlon XP Meets P4: A Comparison Of All CPUs

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By Frank Völkel
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Office-Performance: Sysmark 2001

The Pentium 4/2000 takes first place in the "unofficial score" category, while all AMD CPUs come in ahead of the Intel competition in the normal test.

A comment on Sysmark 2001 - despite the fact that AMD sent us a patch activating the recognition of the SSE command set in Media Encoder 7.1, which is included in the benchmark suite, we didn't use it. The reason for this was that users can't update the Media Encoder in reality. There is no official update from BAPCo yet.

Frank Völkel
3 Comments Comment from the forums
  • salem80
    Good thing to read the history ..........
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  • stascom
    i'm playing around with some old hardware (A-XP 1600+, 512MB, 9600XT), and this is nice to read. Nostalgic, if you will. As fun, as it is to play BC2 on my 6-core Phenom and HD6870, there is just something exciting about getting an old machine running with some of the highest end hardware of its day. I have a P-III machine with Voodoo 3 running Unreal with Glide, how often do you see that? :P
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  • stascom
    oh, and thank you, TH, for keeping all if this content live. even images! :D
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