Intel Yonah Performance Preview - Part I: The Exclusive First Look at Yonah
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 30, 2005 2:50 AM EST- Posted in
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Multitasking Content Creation
MCC Winstone 2004
Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 tests the following applications in various usage scenarios:
. Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1
. Adobe® Premiere® 6.50
. Macromedia® Director MX 9.0
. Macromedia® Dreamweaver MX 6.1
. Microsoft® Windows MediaTM Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
. NewTek's LightWave® 3D 7.5b
. SteinbergTM WaveLabTM 4.0f
All chips were tested with Lightwave set to spawn 4 threads.
While the 2.0GHz Yonah processor is faster than the Pentium D, the X2 3800+ manages to hold a marginal 6% lead over Intel's newcomer. This is somewhat of a disappointment, given the enhancements Yonah has that are specifically designed to improve performance in situations like this. While Yonah is doing better than Dothan here, it's not good enough to beat AMD.
ICC SYSMark 2004
The first category that we will deal with is 3D Content Creation. The tests that make up this benchmark are described below:
"The user renders a 3D model to a bitmap using 3ds max 5.1, while preparing web pages in Dreamweaver MX. Then the user renders a 3D animation in a vector graphics format."
The situation changes dramatically when we look at SYSMark's ICC performance, here the 2.0GHz Yonah is right on the heels of AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4200+, maintaining just under a 7% lead over the identically clocked X2 3800+.
Next, we have 2D Content Creation performance:
"The user uses Premiere 6.5 to create a movie from several raw input movie cuts and sound cuts and starts exporting it. While waiting on this operation, the user imports the rendered image into Photoshop 7.01, modifies it and saves the results. Once the movie is assembled, the user edits it and creates special effects using After Effects 5.5."
Yonah continues to fall in between the X2 3800+ and the 4200+, this time being much closer to the former.
The Internet Content Creation suite is rounded up with a Web Publishing performance test:
"The user extracts content from an archive using WinZip 8.1. Meanwhile, he uses Flash MX to open the exported 3D vector graphics file. He modifies it by including other pictures and optimizes it for faster animation. The final movie with the special effects is then compressed using Windows Media Encoder 9 series in a format that can be broadcast over broadband Internet. The web site is given the final touches in Dreamweaver MX and the system is scanned by VirusScan 7.0."
Once more we see that Yonah isn't perfect, being outpaced by the X2 3800+ by around 8%. Of course power consumption matters, but we'll save that comparison for the end of this article :)
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nserra - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Well he is assuming it will, if not.... another Intel fiasco. But then, I’m still impressed with the power consuming numbers.But how will it scale performance/power consuming? At 2.6Ghz 20%?
xsilver - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
my guess is that its an asus and it will be ridiculously priced.it will also be funny how intel will sell this as the "fastest" processor in the world . blah blah blah.. even though it still cant beat the p4 in video encoding
has it been reported that there will be wide desktop mobo support, unlike the pentium M series so far? more manufacturers need to get in on the action b4 even the possibility of it becoming cheap.
VooDooAddict - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link
First version of a next generation Intel CPU... Slower then the previous generation? NEVER!nserra - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
"Intel still needs to improve their video encoding and gaming performance, but it looks like we may have to wait for Conroe and Merom for that."Yes i will wait, the wait, wait. Wait for wait. You must wait for wait. Then wait will wait for wait. Then i will wait for wait.
Marlin1975 - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
wow intel chaning the pin/board layout to force others to buy all new gear, who would have thought.
shabby - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Geez they moved one little pin just to spite us, friggin sad.Shintai - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Yonah and Dothan is electrical incompatible.You only end up with either a fried chip or simply no ability to even run it.
The new socket is however future proff. It will work with the Merom mobile chip aswell.
Nyati13 - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
It's "rumoured" to be future proof, but Intel will probably change sockets between Yonah and Merom, like they always do.nullpointerus - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Um...how do you know they didn't just move the pin to prevent people from frying the chip in older boards? In other words, does Yonah have a completely different use for the pins, or is it just a marketing scam?Deathcharge - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
I think Intel has a lot of potential, this is a great mobile cpu and we've come a long way from the original P4 (which is what I am using to type this comment). I think this is really just a taste of things to come and if I was AMD I would be looking at what else I have to remain competitive. Sure what they have is far better than anything Intel TODAY but this time next year might be a completely different story.