PCMark2k5 Comparison

[Ronin]

I realize that in part, the playing field isn't even with the boxes I have here, but I wanted to show, in part, the way things were compared to now, and to compare at least somewhat current technology as well.

The results are ONLY the Multithreaded based ones that PCMark2k5 runs, as to hopefully take out the other differences in the machines. I've quoted each machine to make it easier to separate the machine specs.

Note, I also realize this is a sythentic benchmark, so don't flame for the use of it at this point, please.

Pentium4 D 830 @ 3GHz 1MB L2 Cache ? 2 Physical processors (no Hyperthreading on the 830)
2x1GB PC5300 DDR-2 RAM @ 5-5-5-15
2x160 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA drives in Raid 1, with a 25GB partition for Ghost images
Intel 829xxG Lakeport Express Video (onboard, of course)

AMD 4600+ X2 512KB L2 Cache ? 2 Physical processors
2x1GB PC3200 DDR RAM @ 3-3-3-8
1 120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 NCQ SATA Drive
ATi Radeon x800 PCIe Video card

Dell Precision 450 Dual 2.8GHz Xeon 512KB L2 Cache (2 Physical Processors, 2 Logical Processors)
2x256MB PC2700 DDR @ 2.5-3-3-7
1 80GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 IDE Drive
nVidia Quadro FX 1000

AMD Opteron 240 1.4GHz 1MB L2 Cache (2 Physical Processors)
4x512MB PC2700 DDR @ 2.5-3-3-7
1 80GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA Drive
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB

Multithreaded Test 1 / Audio Compressions
P4D - 1677.42 KB/s
X2 - 2335.16 KB/s
Xeon - 1943.82 KB/s
2xOpt240 - 1396.42 KB/s
Multithreaded Test 1 / Video Encoding
P4D - 287.04 KB/s
X2 - 357.62 KB/s
Xeon - 264.35 KB/s
2xOpt240 - 214.22 KB/s
Multithreaded Test 2 / Text Edit
P4D ? 118.75 Pages/s
X2 - 143.2 Pages/s
Xeon - 95.86 Pages/s
2xOpt240 - 84.35 Pages/s
Multithreaded Test 2 / Image Decompression
P4D ? 23.38 MPixels/s
X2 - 27.6 MPixels/s
Xeon - 19.61 MPixels/s
2xOpt240 - 15.69 MPixels/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / File Compression
P4D ? 3.97 MB/s
X2 - 4.97 MB/s
Xeon - 5.2 MB/s
2xOpt240 - 2.83 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / File Encryption
P4D ? 33.33 MB/s
X2 - 22.42 MB/s
Xeon - 21.94 MB/s
2xOpt240 - 13.26 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / HDD - Virus Scan
P4D ? 28.99 MB/s
X2 - 30.54 MB/s
Xeon - 50.46 MB/s
2xOpt240 - 26.5 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / Memory Latency - Random 16 MB
P4D ? 7.79 MAccesses/s
X2 - 9.9 MAccesses/s
Xeon - 7.18 MAccesses/s
2xOpt240 - 9.36 MAccesses/s

The only one I'm not sure how to highlight a winner is the Mem latency...generally, we know lower is better, but I'm confused about how the Intel boxes come out with the lower #'s. If anyone has the answer to that, I'm all ears.

 

[coomar]

i wonder why the xeon's opened a can of whoopass in the hdd/ virus scan

 

[Ronin]

I found that odd myself, and tbh, I can't provide an answer.

 

[Markfw]

I was really going to bench my Opterons and my X2 system, but both XP partiton installs were borked. I will try when I get them fixed (I run win2k as my primary boot OS)

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: Ronin
Multithreaded Test 3 / Memory Latency - Random 16 MB
P4D ? 7.79 MAccesses/s
X2 - 9.9 MAccesses/s
Xeon - 7.18 MAccesses/s
2xOpt240 - 9.36 MAccesses/s

The only one I'm not sure how to highlight a winner is the Mem latency...generally, we know lower is better, but I'm confused about how the Intel boxes come out with the lower #'s. If anyone has the answer to that, I'm all ears.

The units are in accesses per second, not latency. The X2 wins here. Unless I'm sorely mistaken.