PC Magazine Benchmarks

Content Creation Winstone 2004 and Business Winstone 2004

Notes

Running a faster front side bus speed gives Intel a minimal performance boost in Content Creation 2004. However, the difference isn’t enough even to catch AMD’s Athlon 64 3800+.

The same holds true in Business Winstone 2004, where gaining 60MHz and more memory bandwidth makes a measurable difference to the Pentium 4, but not enough to affect the standings.

Then again, the argument can be made that Business Winstone, featuring tests that rely heavily on user input, doesn’t necessarily reflect performance differences between the Pentium 4 and Athlon 64.

Results from the Prescott core, are more promising for Intel. In Content Creation 2004, the 3.6GHz processor beats even this latest Extreme Edition. When Intel transitions the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition to 90nm, does away with the L3 cache, and adds an extra megabyte of L2, the platform will undoubtedly improve its position in these tests.