Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz: The clock strikes two

Business & Content Creation Performance (continued)

SYSMark 2001’s Office Productivity suite is actually much more stressful on the CPU and platform in general than Business Winstone 2001.  This gives the Athlon 1.4GHz a 8.6% lead over the Pentium 4 2.0GHz.  The Athlon is still the better choice for Business/Office applications however with 512KB L2 cache the Northwood core may be able to tilt things in the Pentium 4’s favor.  Remember that these types of applications rely on being able to run primarily out of cache.

The Internet Content Creation tests under SYSMark 2001 provide a much different picture.  The Pentium 4 is clearly dominating in this test mainly because of the Windows Media Encoder portion of the benchmark.

Summing the two parts up results in a 12% lead for the Pentium 4 2.0GHz over the Athlon 1.4.