PC Magazine Benchmarks

Content Creation Winstone 2004 and Business Winstone 2004

Notes

During this year’s E3, we had the opportunity to talk to VIA about its K8T800 Pro chipset. At one point in the conversation, one of the company’s representatives mentioned that in some cases, K8T800 Pro might actually perform a bit slower than its predecessor as a result of the chipset’s asynchronous bus. Indeed, the Socket 939 Athlon 64 FX-53 sacrifices a bit of performance compared to the quicker nForce3 150 board from ASUS.

Although the new S939 Athlon 64 FX-53 outpaces all of Intel’s fastest offerings, it isn’t able to put any distance on AMD’s other high-end products, even in light of unbuffered memory support. The Athlon 64 3800+, on the other hand, shows fairly well, also outpacing Intel’s hardware and delivering a much better value in Content Creation Winstone 2004.

It’s a similar story in Business Winstone 2004, as all of AMD’s top-shelf products beat the best from Intel. However, the Socket 939 processors don’t prove any faster than their Socket 940 counterparts.

The multi-tasking tests favor the Athlon 64 FX line, though Intel’s Pentium 4 family picks up quite a bit of slack, outpacing the new Socket 939 chips and AMD’s older Athlon 64 3400+.