Page 4 - Performance - PCMark 2002 and SANDRA
PC Mark 2002PCMark2002 Pro measures and makes a diagnosis of your computers performance under home and office usage. It has the capability to test all types of PCs, laptops and workstations using 39 comprehensive performance benchmarking tests. Although PCMark2002 Pro is a full-fledged professional benchmark, its exceptional ease-of-use makes even novice users feel comfortable in testing their own systems.
The integrated Online Result Browser service compares your results with PCs for all PCMark2002 tests with other results submitted by PCMark2002 users around the world. Submitted results will help you get reliable information about your hardware and help you decide which hardware is the optimal upgrade for your system.
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| PCMark 2002 | CPU | MEM |
| Athlon 2000+ DDR 333 | 4987 | 3170 |
| Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz DDR333 | 5931 | 6299 |
| Athlon XP 3000+ DDR 333 | 6450 | 4809 |
| Athlon XP 3200+ DDR333 Dual | 6813 | 6166 |
| Pentium4 3.06 HT DDR 400 | 7548 | 6796 |
The validity of this benchmark is a little questionable, as the performance of the P4 3.06 GHz seems a bit high, that might be due to HyperThreading though.. Especially hen you compare it towards the game benchmarks. However, let's take a look at the results from SANDRA:
SiSoft Sandra Benchmarks
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. Sandra provides similar level of information to Norton SI, Quarterdeck WinProbe/Manifest, etc. The Win32 version is 32-bit and comes in both ANSI (legacy for Windows 98/Me systems) and native Unicode (Windows NT4/200X/.Net) formats. The Win64 version is 64-bit and comes in native Unicode format.
Do note that all the SANDRA benchmarks are synthetic and thus are may not tally with real-life performance. The latter stands for whatever your environment is, i.e. which applications you run with what amount of data and so on. It is up to you to decide whether what Sandra measures is what you want to measure.
Here you can find the scores taken with Sandra.
| Sandra - DhryStone | CPU |
| Pentoium 4 2.4 GHz DDR333 | 6451 |
| Athlon XP 3000+ DDR333 | 8120 |
| Pentium 4 - 3.06 GHz | 8802 |
| ASUS A7N8X @ 3200+ | 8840 |
| Pentium 4 - 3.06 GHz + HT | 9570 |
Here we see a bit better overview as we did both Hyperthreading enabled and disabled with Sandra. Let's look at memory performance with 333 MHZ DDR systems. Funnily enough the Athlon 3200+ has DualCHannel DDR memory, the ASUS mainboard is not rather utilizing that option very well. Perhaps a new BIOS will fix this issue. The number should have been ~3200 MB/sec with a configuration like this.
| Sandra Memory DDR 333 MHz | MEM/MB/s |
| Albatron PX845PE Pro II - Pentium 2.4 GHz | 2562 |
| Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra 2 - Pentium 2.4 GHz | 2524 |
| PX845PEV-800 - Pentium 2.4 GHz | 2516 |
| ASUS A7N8X - Athlon XP 3200+ | 2860 |
| ASUS A7N8X @ Athlon XP3200+ agressive ram timings | 2890 |
The next benchmarks are based on games. The CPU's used are faster than a graphics card can handle. So in the highest resolutions you'll notice not much difference in the results. This is the videocards bottleneck as it can't push any harder. What you need to monitor are the lowest resolutions as the videocard is not limited in raw power or memory bandwidth. I know this may sound a bit weird but the Radeon 9700 Pro that we used is actually a limiting factor for the CPU in the highest resolutions. Bare that in mind as we try to demonstrate the power of the CPU and not the graphics card.
