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.

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Here you can find the scores of Sandra for the 2,8 GHz Pentium 4 in combination with Athlon results.

The results above demonstrate the awesome memory bandwidth and CPU power, to date nothing can beat the 2,8 GHz. The other Mainboard/memory/cpu's you see are standard submitted scores from SiSoft. Let's run some 'handmade' tests ourselves shall we:

Almost the same results. As expected the 2,8 GHz is right on par with where it should be performance wise. Next we'll go into a series of gaming related benchmarks after that we'll do some more synthetic testing with PC Mark 2002. First up, 3D Mark 2001 SE Pro.

Before we start off with the gaming benchmarks I need to explain something to you to understand what is happening to the test-results.

Logic assumes that you need to take a look at the highest resolution tested versus the score. This is not the case.

The CPU's used are faster than a game needs, the rest is done by the videocard in hardware. 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 a GeForce4 Ti 4600 is actually limiting factor for the CPU in the highest resolutions.

On the other hand, if you buy a system like this you won't be playing games in 640x480 or 800x600, therefore I have chosen 1024x768 as lowest resolution.