Intel Pentium 4 6xx and 3.73EE: Favoring Features Over Performance

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• Alfaneo - Friday, August 26, 2005 - link

  
  here is 478 pin result
  Run All Summary
  
  ---------- SUM_RESULTS\3DSMAX\SUMMARY.TXT
  3dsmax-03 Weighted Geometric Mean = 16.99
  
  ---------- SUM_RESULTS\CATIA\SUMMARY.TXT
  catia-01 Weighted Geometric Mean = 14.27
  
  ---------- SUM_RESULTS\ENSIGHT\SUMMARY.TXT
  ensight-01 Weighted Geometric Mean = 20.60
  
  ---------- SUM_RESULTS\LIGHT\SUMMARY.TXT
  light-07 Weighted Geometric Mean = 12.34
  
  ---------- SUM_RESULTS\MAYA\SUMMARY.TXT
  maya-01 Weighted Geometric Mean = 18.69
  
  ---------- SUM_RESULTS\PROE\SUMMARY.TXT
  proe-03 Weighted Geometric Mean = 16.74
  
  ---------- SUM_RESULTS\SW\SUMMARY.TXT
  sw-01 Weighted Geometric Mean = 14.16
  
  ---------- SUM_RESULTS\UGS\SUMMARY.TXT
  ugs-04 Weighted Geometric Mean = 18.35
  

• blckgrffn - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

  Let's hope that they don't post it because they know that running 1T is imperative to get good performance number, and thus use it by default.

• Hans Maulwurf - Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - link

  Many other sites don´t publish their command rate either, this looks very strange for me. Most sites used to publish them before. I don´t understand...

• L3p3rM355i4h - Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - link

  I'm assuming 1T, although the ammount of pwnage that would occur if it was 2T would be incredible.

• Zebo - Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - link

  Derek/Anand- Why is it you don't say what A64's command rate was? 1T or 2T? This makes a huge impact on A64's performance (as shown by Anand right here and myself in forums) and is sloppy jounalism to leave out. Sure "other" sites do this crap but not anandtech.:|

• Dualboy24 - Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - link

  I am just not finding the releases to be impressive lately... I am waiting to see the future dual core etc... perhaps that will wow us all. Its just not like the 90s anymore where it was always an exciting time with CPUs.
  
  Perhaps a battle between 56kbps modem models would prove entertaining :) L()L

• neogodless - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  #64 I'm saying I don't bother. I don't do that at work (P42.4C) either. At work, I listen to MP3s while having 2 e-mail clients open, various browser windows and tabs, a development environment, FTP, database manager, various IM programs, remote desktop, etc. And I do about the same at home, though usually on a smaller scale. And it works fine. However, if I go to a web page that gobbles up resources (poorly written javascript, i can give you an example page), I'm able to do everything else on the HT machine which shows about "53%" overall CPU usage. An the Athlon 64, if something gobbles up CPU, I see "99%" usage and a sluggish environment. But it's ALL subjective... I want to see Objective measurements.
  
  I also don't want to see Athlon vs. Intel opinions/flames because I'm not claiming one or the other is better... just asking for objective measurements.

• RZaakir - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  neo, are you saying that you have problems running a game and listening to MP3s simultaneously on your Athlon 64?

• RockHydra11 - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  Disappointing to say the least....

• neogodless - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  I'm not sure why I got attacked for requesting Multi-tasking benchmarks. I prefer my AMD for gaming, and I prefer the Intel at work where I run lots of programs at once but (unfortunately) never game. It's not a fair comparison anyway because my home machine is limited by only one monitor, while my work machine has two.
  
  Yes, many benchmarks are optimized for Hyperthreading, and if they are synthetic, then it doesn't matter. I'm asking for benchmarks with programs you use every day. If they're optimized for Hyperthreading, then you will see real world benefit from that, when using an HT enabled processor.
  
  When I run games on my AMD64, it gobbles up all the CPU (even if it's an old game) for whatever reason, and I don't find it practical to leave a game running in the background while doing something else. I've done it, and it didn't greatly hinder doing some small task like check e-mail or send an instant message, but I wouldn't intentionally do it, especially if I decided I'd rather listen to Mp3s than finish my game...