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 XP2200+ are impressive. Looking at this graph you can see that the XP2200+ is packing some muscle.
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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.
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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.
Business Winstone 2001 - Click to view largerOnce again the extra oomph of the XP2200+ pushes it past its sibling while running real world Business Programs.
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.
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The XP2200+ wins again. Shocker huh! Ok Ill keep the extra commentary to a minimum for the rest of the graphs.
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.
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Did you notice the last result seems backwards? Well its not. In this last 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.
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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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