ZathaN said:
> Venice is definitely faster than Winchester, this is the biggest difference we could see in all benchmarks. The Pentium 4s are slower. <
Intel Dothan is faster than any AMD64
Not quite faster but holding their own. Reviews have shown the M to be a very good processor, but the new AMD's still kick its little butt in almost every test.
I compared my own overclocked P4 650 (3.4Ghz) with the performance of the Venice 3800+ in the review here.
Processors cost about the same but I think the 3800+ is just a little bit cheaper.
Sandra CPU Benchmark
3800+ 13228 MIPS Highest Overclock 11x260
3800+ 12717 MPIS Lowest Overclock 11x244
Mine: 11873 MIPS
3800+: 11143 MIPS Stock 11x200
Mine: 4940/8324 Flops
3800+ 4517/5846 Flops Highest Overclock 11x260
SuperPI 1M
3800+ 29.7 Highest Overclock 11x260
3800+ 31.6 Lowest Overclock 11x244
Mine 33
3800+ 35.4 Stock
Super PI 32M
3800+ 28.98 Highest Overclock 11x260
3800+ 30.71 Stock 11x200
Mine 31.71
3500+ 33.06 11x200
Number crunching performance is not quite so lopsided as the review shows. You cannot say "P4s are slow", at least any recent P4 compared to this AMD. FX-55s and X2s oh yeah you bet. Everything is slow compared to them. But there is a huge difference in the 600 series compared to what is used here. I'll even try the benchmarks again when I don't have other stuff running. BeyondTV was recording a show, and my raid array was rebuilding a mirror, and all of that surely affected my results somewhat. Haha it's all in fun anyway. Id like to see how a overclocked 3.6 or 3.8Ghz P4 compares with a 3800+.