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AMD or Pentium4 ?


I was needed a new processor for DVD Ripping, 3D Renders, MP3 Compreesion, TVCapture in Real Time. I was doubting between AMD or Intel.

So I made a program: BaoBenchMark 2.2 (6 Kb) to check the speed of General Registers, Floating Point (FPU) Registers, MMX, 3DNow (amd), and SSE (pentium3). None of the others Benchmarks programs I liked because don't check the speed of each Register System separately and this I think is essential.

Each test do 4 billion additions. MMX and 3DNow can do these adds two at same time, SSE do 4 adss at same time, but General Registers and FPU only do 1 per instruction. I think the tests are right, It would be nosense a multiplication test or so. I was looking for an instruction present in all Register systems and the addition is the ideal instruction. The loop in each test was thinked so the time the loop spend is the same in each test, so only the code of each Register System is relevant.

You must disconnect Internet and all the others programs running shutdown so a correct measure of the speed be achieved. 

Well, here is the Benchmark Table with the results I already got: (the order of processors is from better to worst in my own opinion). You can see an Athlon 1.4Ghz (1400Mhz) is nearly equal to a P4 1.7Ghz. Is difficult say what processor is better. The Athlon is better in FPU and MMX registers. P4 is better in 32bit General Registers but not sufficient to compense the disvantage in the other two. I think P4 will shown power in programs that use SSE Registers. I doubted between these two processors and bought an Athlon 1.4Ghz but the decission is difficult. 


BenchMark Table:

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CPU Test 1
(32bit Registers) 		Test 2
(FPU) 		Test 3
(MMX) 		Test 4
(3DNow)  		Test 5
(SSE)
AMD XP 1.7
   1.4 Ghz really
  (311.1%) 		5.06
(354%) 		5.13
(478.6%)

2.39
(420.5%)

 2.59 -
Athlon
   1.4 Ghz 
  (311.1%) 		5.16
(347%) 		5.33
(460.6%)

2.52
(398.8%)

 2.69 -
Pentium 4
   1.7 Ghz 
  (377.8%) 		4.73
(378.6%) 		6.87
(357.4%)

3.13
(321%)

 - 1.76
(512%)
AMD Thunderbird
   1000 Mhz 
  (222.2%) 		7.43
(241%) 		7.44
(330%)

3.48
(288.8%)

 3.73 -
AMD Duron
   1000 Mhz 
  (222.2%) 		7.91
(226.4%) 		7.42
(330.9%)

3.50
(287.1%)

 3.95 -
AMD Athlon
   800 Mhz 
  (177.8%) 		9.00
(199%) 		10.05
(244.3%)

4.01
(250.6%)

 4.99 -
Intel Celeron II
   896 Mhz 
  (199.1%) 		9.40
(190.5%) 		12.91
(190.1%)

5.77
(174.2%)

 - 5.05
(178.4%)
AMD Athlon
   600 Mhz 
  (133.3%) 		13.45
(133.2%) 		12.52
(196.1%)

5.93
(169.5%)

 6.70 -
Intel Pentium 3
   600 Mhz
  (133.3%) 		13.35
(134.2%) 		18.35
(133.8%)

7.54
(133.3%)

 - 6.74
(133.7%)
Intel Pentium 3
   450 Mhz
  (100%) 		17.91
(100%) 		24.55
(100%) 		10.05
(100%) 		- 9.01
(100%)
Intel Pentium 2
   350 Mhz 
  (77.8%) 		22.90
(78.2%) 		31.52
(77.9%)

12.9
(77.9%)

 - -
AMD K6 II
   561 Mhz 
  (124.6%) 		24.06
(74.4%) 		48.23
(50.9%)

13.34
(75.3%)

 13.41 -
Intel Pentium 2
   333 Mhz 
  (74%) 		24.28
(73.8%) 		33.34
(73.6%)

13.62
(73.8%)

 - -
AMD K6 III
   400 Mhz 
  (88.9%) 		33.83
(52.9%) 		67.67
(36.3%)

18.84
(53.3%)

 18.78 -
Intel Pentium
   166 Mhz 
  (36.9%) 		76.62
(23.4%) 		177.13
(13.9%)

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 - -
Cyrix MediaGX
    266 Mhz 
  (59.1%) 		77.06
(23.2%) 		402.28
(6.1%)

138.57
(7.3%)

 - -

White: This is the CPU of reference (100%).                
 Red: Used to remark very good or really bad numbers 
(please confirmation is needed).
Blue: Confirmed, this number is correct.                       

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