AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ & 4200+ Dual Core Performance Preview
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 9, 2005 12:02 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
Multitasking Content Creation
MCC Winstone 2004
Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 tests the following applications in various usage scenarios:. Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1All chips were tested with Lightwave set to spawn 4 threads.
. 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
As we start looking at usage scenarios with multithreaded applications, we start to see some performance gains for dual core.
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."
Just as we saw in our preview, AMD's dual core Athlon 64 X2 line is unbeatable under the ICC SYSmark 2004 tests.
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."
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."
Mozilla + Media Encoder
The WorldBench 5 multitasking tests agree with what we've seen elsewhere already - if you can take advantage of the two cores, performance is definitely improved over even higher clocked single core CPUs.
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Ender17 - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
Would have been nice to have a 2.8GHz Pentium D so you could get a sense of how the Intel chips scaled with an increase in the clock speed.RadeonGuy - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
Great Article Anandvery depthful
ashegam - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
I'm having a woodygasm :)nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, May 9, 2005 - link
looks very promisingMIKE
potato pc - Sunday, October 20, 2019 - link
I just looked into this article because my destkop in 2019 on windows 10 has it.man its insane how dual cores were powerful at this time.
brug69 - Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - link
so crazy that this was 15 years ago, and yall never had a clue that there would ever be 64 core processors today...DARK_BG - Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - link
Hah I was reading this review 15 years ago and with their prices back then I was only dreaming about the 1024kb dual core ones :) Well I took it 3 years later second hand Athlon 64X2 4800+ :D Still working on Asus A8N-E with a ATI HD4850 now used by my grandfather just to read the news :)ReneHerrera - Friday, June 10, 2022 - link
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