Business Benchmarks

System Setup

Intel Celeron 400 PPGA (x2)
Intel Pentium II 400 SECC (x2)

Tyan Thunder 100 DLUAN Dual-P2 motherboard
128MB Corsair 3.3v CAS-2 unbuffered PC-100 SDRAM
Western Digital Caviar 26400 6.4GB EIDE HD
nVidia reference RivaTNT - STB Velocity 4400
     Driver version 4.11.01.0109 (Detonator)

Windows 98 + DirectX 6.1
Windows NT 4.0 + SP4

Benchmarks Used

Winbench 99 1.1 - 1024x768x16
Winstone 99 1.0 - 1024x768x16
Quake II 3.20
Adobe Photoshop 5.02
Threadmark v1.20

Business Benchmarks

Winbench99 CPUMark99
System	Score
Dual Celeron 400 NT	31.4
Dual P2 400 NT	30.5
Single Celeron 400 NT	31.3
Single Celeron 400 Win98	31.4

Winbench99 Business Diskmark99
System	Score
Dual Celeron 400 NT	3160
Dual P2 400 NT	3090
Single Celeron 400 NT	2910
Single Celeron 400 Win98	2600

Winstone99 Business Suite
System	Score
Dual Celeron 400 NT	25.0
Dual P2 400 NT	24.5
Single Celeron 400 NT	24.3
Single Celeron 400 Win98	19.7

Winstone99 Dual Processor Inspection Tests
System	Score
Dual Celeron 400 NT	2.25
Dual P2 400 NT	2.18
Single Celeron 400 NT	1.85
Single Celeron 400 Win98	N/A

Winstone99 High End Suite
System	Score
Dual Celeron 400 NT	20.9
Dual P2 400 NT	21.4
Single Celeron 400 NT	19.4
Single Celeron 400 Win98	N/A

From the Ziff Davis benchmarks, there don't seem to be any major advantages to running dual-processors, especially for general business applications. One of the big differences noticeable between NT and Win98 are the Business Diskmark and Winstone scores, which more accurately reflect NT's more efficient I/O subsystem and NTFS file system rather than dual-processors. In fact, it appears that only the high-end and dual-processor inspection tests make good use of multiprocessor applications such as Photoshop, Microstation, and Visual C++.

A very common theme shown here and repeated throughout the benchmarks is the utter lack of differentiation between the scores of the Celeron setups with that of the same-speed Pentium II's. We've all seen and heard it before, but these results go to show that for the must part, the Celeron is every bit as powerful as its older sibling.