SysMark 2004

BAPCo SysMark 2004

Notes

BAPCO’s SysMark 2002 was previously ostracized by benchmarking labs for showing a suspiciously large bias towards Intel processors. Then, AMD joined the organization, lending its input to development. The result is SysMark 2004, freshly released and designed to measure overall system responsiveness rather than time taken to complete a workload. It’s a massive test, consuming more than three hours per run. However, its results are much more inline with what we’d expect given an application of its nature.

It isn’t much of a surprise that the Athlon 64 FX-51 takes a first place finish. After all, it has plenty of memory bandwidth at its disposal. Intel’s Pentium 4 3.2 comes in a close second place, though, due in part to excellent Web Publication and 3D Creation scores. The Athlon 64 3400+ in question does very well in its own regard, coming in just three percent behind the first place finisher.