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Synthetic and Software/Production Benchmarking
SiSoft
Sandra is a standard for many end users/builders to compare their systems
to others. These benchmarks are quoted on every website you find and are almost
the cornerstone of bragging rights. As you might expect the MP 2400+ processors
are leading the way in these benchmarks. However in the memory results the MP2400+
processors give up a little ground. As strange as it looks I ran the test several
times and the results are correct.
Content
Creation Winstone 2001 ver 1.01 is a system-level, application-based
benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance. Content Creation will keep
several applicationsat once and switches among those applications. Programs
used during this are Adobe Photoshop 5.5, Adobe Premiere 5.1, Macromedia Director
8.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0, Netscape Navigator 4.73, and Sonic Foundry
Sound Forge 4.5.
Business
Winstone 2001 ver 1.01 is another system-level, application-based benchmark
that measures a PC's overall performance. Business Winstone runs real applications
through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete
those activities to produce its performance scores.
Again the MP 2400+ processors lead the way by posting solid numbers. As with
all my reviews I will cut back on the commentary as you browse the rest of the
benchmark results. The numbers speak for themselves.
CLI
Bench MK III SMP is as stated on the web page, a different benchmarking
solution. This benchmark runs a gamut of synthetic benchmarks that includes:
Dhrystones, Whetstones, Eight queens' problem, Matrix operations, Number Crunching,
Floating point, memory throughput, hard disk's throughput and the CPU usage.
Science
Mark 1.0 will measure the performance of your computer by the execution
of a few tests, including the simulation of liquid argon, energy calculation
of H2O, and the like. When comparing the three tests, smaller numbers are better.
In this comparison bigger is better. The score is a result of a comparison to
a base
system, which has a final score of 100.
Cinebench 2000 is another benchmarking program that uses raytracing
to test the CPU for performance. This benchmark also supports SMP as evident
in the multiple CPU raytracing result.
The benchmark results are listed in CB units. Larger numbers here are better.
So at this point it would be helpful to know what a CB unit is, right? Well
the explanation that is given is using a reference system of a Pentium 133 MHz.
The result represents how much faster your system is than the reference.
SPECviewperf
6.1.2 parses command lines and data files, sets the rendering state,
and converts data sets to a format that can be traversed usingL rendering
calls. It renders the data set for a pre-specified amount of time or number
of frames with animation between frames. Finally, it outputs the result. SPECviewperf
reports performance in frames per second. In this benchmark, higher numbers
are better.
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