Test Setup And Details

06:00 - Monday 17 February 2003 by Frank Völkel
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: benchmark, marathon

Table of content:
22 – Test Setup And Details
  1. 1 – CPU Performance Check: AMD & Intel 1994 To 2003
  2. 2 – CPU Performance Check: AMD & Intel 1994 To 2003, Continued
  3. 3 – Three Hundred Hours Of Benchmark Testing
  4. 4 – Three Hundred Hours Of Benchmark Testing, Continued
  5. 5 – Intel CPUs From 486DX To The Pentium 4/3066
  6. 6 – Intel Pentium 75 To 200: March 1994 To June 1996
  7. 7 – Intel Pentium 150 To 233 mmX: October 1996 To June 1997
  8. 8 – Intel Celeron 233 To 533: April 1998 TO January 2000
  9. 9 – Pentium II/233 To 450: May 1997 To August 1998
  10. 10 – Pentium III/500 To 1133: October 1999 To July 2001
  11. 11 – Celeron II/533 To 1100: January2000 To July 2001
  12. 12 – Celeron/Pentium III/1000 To 1400: January 2000 To July 2001
  13. 13 – Pentium 4/1300 To 3066 MHz: November 2000 To Date
  14. 14 – AMD CPUs: From The K5-75 To The Athlon XP 3000+
  15. 15 – K6-2+/400 To K6-2+/550: April 2000 To September 2000
  16. 16 – K6-III/400 To K6-III/500: February 1999 To September 2000
  17. 17 – Athlon 500 To 1000: August 1999 To May 2000
  18. 18 – Athlon 650 To 1400: June 2000 To June 2001
  19. 19 – Duron 600 To 950: June 2000 To June 2001
  20. 20 – Athlon XP 1500+ To 2100+: October 2001 To March 2002
  21. 21 – Athlon XP 1700+ To 2800+: June 2002 To October 2002
  22. 22 – Test Setup And Details
  23. 23 – OpenGL-Performance: Quake 3 Arena
  24. 24 – DirectX-8-Game: 3D Mark 2001 SE
  25. 25 – DirectX8-Game: Unreal Tournament 2003
  26. 26 – Audio-Encoding MP3: Mp3 Maker Platinium 3.04
  27. 27 – Video-Encoding MPEG-2: Main Concept 1.3
  28. 28 – Multimedia: PC Mark 2002
  29. 29 – SiSoft Sandra 2003 Benchmarks: CPU Und Multimedia
  30. 30 – SiSoft Sandra 2003 Benchmarks, Continued
  31. 31 – File Compression: Winrar 3.1
  32. 32 – Office/ Internet Performance: Sysmark 2002
  33. 33 – Sysmark 2002, Continued

Test Setup And Details

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Intel
Intel Driver V4.10 Build 1012 (11-13-2002)
Intel IAA Driver V2.3 (11-13-2002)
AMD
nForce2 Driver Version: 1.16 Package (Asus)
VIA Driver Version: Hyperion 4in1 V4.45
Common Hardware
Graphics Card I ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Memory: 128 MB DDR-SDRAM
Memory Clock: 620 MHz (256 Bit)
Chip Clock: 325 MHz
Graphics Card II GeForce 4 Ti 4600 (MSI MS-8872) Version: 2.00
Memory: 128 MB DDR-SDRAM
Memory Clock: 650 MHz
Chip Clock: 300 MHz
Hard Drive 40 GB,6L040J2, Maxtor
UDMA100, 7200 rpm, 2 MB Cache
Network D-Link DFE-530TX (10/100 Mbit)
CDROM Asus 52x
Drivers and Software
ATI CATALYST RADEON 3.0 (7.81)
ATI Control Panels 6.14.10.4012
Nvidia Detonator: 41.09
DirectX Version: 9.0
OS Windows XP, Build 2600 SP1 (English)
Benchmarks and Settings
Bapco Sysmark 2002 Version 1.0
Quake III Arena Patch V1.16
640x480 - 16 bit / 1024 x 768 - 32 bit
Timedemo1 / demo demo001 / nv15demo
command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0
Graphics detail = Normal
3DMark 2001 SE Version 1.1 - Build 340 - Patch Build 330
1024 x 786 - 32 bit
Default Benchmark
PCMark 2002 Pro Pack Build 100
CPU and Memory Tests
Winrar 3.1
178 MB Wave file, Compression = Best, Dictionary = 4096 kB
SiSoftware Sandra Standard 2003 Version 2003.1.9.26
CPU MultiMedia / CPU Arithmetic / Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
Mainconcept MPEG Encoder Version 1.3
1.2 GB DV to MPEG II (720x576, Audio) converting
magix - mp3 maker platinum Version 3.04 D
178 MB Wave file, 44100 Hz, VBR = on and Quality
Unreal Tournament 2003 Patch 1 1080
1024 x 768 / 32 bit / Audio = off
benchmark.exe
Texture Detail = Normal, Character Detail = Normal
World Detail = Highest, Physics Detail = High
all = on, Decal Stay = High

Benchmarks Under Windows XP

OpenGL performance Quake 3 Arena "Demo 1" and "NV15 Demo"
DirectX8 games Unreal Tournament 2003 (Demo)
3D Mark 2001 SE (Version 1.1)
Unreal Tournament 2003
MP3 audio encoding mp3 Maker Platinum 3.04
MPEG-2 video encoding Main Concept 1.3
Office performance Sysmark 2002
File compression Winrar 3.1
CPU and Multimedia Bench PC Mark 2002
SiSoft Sandra 2003

We used several different benchmarks to obtain a complete and balanced picture of the performance of all x86 processors. Our benchmark results provide a clear performance overview of a total of 65 different CPUs.

We test OpenGL performance with two different Quake 3 tests. We test Direct3D performance in the DirectX package with 3D Mark 2001 Pro (based on DirectX 8.1). The various MPEG encoding benchmarks provide us with a wealth of test scenarios. We encode a 178 MB WAV file to "MPEG-1 Layer 3 format" using the Lame MP3 encoder and mp3 Maker Platinum. We also convert a DV video (1.2 GB) to MPEG-2 format with Main Concept 1.3. Zipping of files is highly relevant to day-to-day computing, and we have started to do this in our testing with Winrar 3.1. To measure Office performance, we use the well-known Sysmark 2002 benchmarking program. Last but not least, we include the ubiquitous SiSoft Sandra 2003. We must not forget Tournament 2003, the popular 3D game for DirectX8. Overclockers looking for guidelines for successful overclocking will find PC Mark 2002 of interest.


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