Intel Prescott: the benchmarks
Published: 02 Feb 2004
Application performance
Business and Content Creation Winstone are application-based benchmarks that carry out typical tasks like a converting video files or creating a PowerPoint presentation. The following applications are used (version numbers in the new Winstone 2004 releases are in brackets):
Content Creation Winstone 2003 (2004)
- Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (7.0.1)
- Adobe Premiere 6.0 (6.50)
- Macromedia Director 8.5.1 (MX 9.0)
- Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 (MX 6.1)
- Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7.01.00.3055 (9.0)
- Netscape 6.2.3 (Internet Explorer)
- NewTek's LightWave 7.5 (7.5b)
- Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 6.0 (Steinberg WaveLab 4.0f)
- 5 Microsoft Office 2000 (Office XP) components (Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, Word)
- Microsoft Project 2000 (Project 2002)
- Lotus Notes (MS Outlook)
- WinZip 8.0 (8.1)
- Norton AntiVirus (version 2003)
- Netscape Communicator (Internet Explorer)
AMD’s Athlon 64 processors are faster than their Intel counterparts under both of the new 2004 Winstone benchmarks. Despite its extended pipeline, Intel’s Prescott is slightly faster than its Northwood predecessor.
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