Preface: Intel launches Pentium 4 architecture of the Prescott architecture has been more than a year, Intel has been pushing the Prescott architecture, although the core frequency has reached 3.8GHz and the L2 cache is doubled than Northwood Pentium 4, but Prescott's performance is not Improvement of substantial performance. However, the most prominent disadvantage of Intel Prescott processor is that the power consumption is quite high, the chip is almost a food and electricity monster, and the heat is also hot than other desktop processors. Although Intel's desktop processor still occupies the mainstream market, Intel has lost a lot of loyal enthusiasts. Especially when Intel's Pentium-M processor enters the desktop system, the Prescott architecture is in a more embarrassing situation, struggling in the market. Because Intel This genius processor exceeds the frequency twice as much as its Prescott Pentium 4 in many applications and games, it is more serious, and Pentium-M has such excellent performance, but power consumption is only current 1/4 of the Pentium 4 system. It can be said that we have never had any feelings for Prescott, although we admit that Prescott Pentium 4 performance is really good, such as this chip in Adobe Photoshop and 3D Studio Max is quite excellent, but this does not change Our viewpoint of the Prescott architecture. However, the situation seems to have changed. Here, we have to say that Intel's latest Pentium 4 processor, "Prescott" architecture has become more and more attractive - this is the latest "Prescott-2M" core architecture of Intel. The Prescott 2 architecture is the most exciting Pentium 4 processor upgrade version in the past year. In addition to 2MB L2 cache, it will also set the advanced technology such as Enhanced Speedstep, EM64T. In order to let everyone know the "prescott-2M" core, today we will introduce the top model of Intel P4 600 Series processor - based on Prescott-2M core Pentium 4 660, its default frequency is 3.6 GHz and sale The price is at $ 700. At the same time, we decided to take this price range, Athlon64 4000 processor from major competitors AMD to compare, let everyone see these two top processors in 64bit windows, 32bit Windows two different operations It is a win, seeing the Pentium 4 660 processor Pentium 4 660 processor primarily for products developed in high-end desktop systems, workstations, and game platforms. The core frequency of Pentium 4 660 is 3.6 GHz, slightly lower than Intel's previous Pentium 4 model: Pentium 4 570J frequency is 3.8GHz, although the frequency is slightly low, the Pentium 4 660 still has more attractive functions than Pentium 4 570J For example, support EIST (Enhanced Speedstep) and EMT64 (support 64bit operation) technology, of course, all features of the Pentium 4 500 series (Hyper-Threading, SSE-3, NO-EXECUTE BIT). Although functionality has expanded, in fact, Pentium 4 600 series still uses the same package as Pentium 4 500 Series, the same SOCKET type: Pentium 4 660 is encapsulated with Socket-775 LGA and is also running under the 800 MHz front-end bus. This means that it can support the Pentium 4 600 Series with the current market, Intel 915 Series and 925 Series motherboards - the motherboard can support the new features of the Pentium 4 600 series.
Unlike the Pentium 4 500 Series, Pentium 4 660 is based on Intel's latest "Prescott-2M" architecture, which is also used 90nm process. Intel has modified the original Prescott design, which can reduce the core power consumption and generated heat in a certain special, while the L2 caching capacity is also increased to 2MB (originally 1MB). This new design is applied to the Pentium 4 core of Intel "N0", and the Intel Pentium 4 600 series will use this core. The most obvious new feature of the Pentium 4 600 Series processor is the technology called "EM64T" in Intel - 64bit coding operations can be implemented. Although the name is different, Intel's EM64T technology is just an extension of AMD AMD64 technology. Although the two technologies are currently different in hardware implementation architectures, both are compatible, as long as they can run on one processor, they can also fully support on another processor. Because these two techniques use almost the same instruction set. Use these new Pentium 4 processors that support EM64T technology, you have to try the upcoming Windows XP x64 Edition operating system will no longer have any problems. Pentium 4 660 is running in Windows XP X64 Edition (click Enlarge) 600 Series to another important feature is EIST technology and well-known enhanced SpeedStep technology. When SpeedStep is enabled, it allows the Pentium 4 600 Series processor to reduce operating frequencies at low loads, which significantly reduces their work calories and power consumption at runtime. The EIST technology can adjust the working frequency and voltage of the processor based on the workload of the processor, just like they are in the laptop. On the desktop processor, AMD has introduced Cool'QUIET technology similar to the EIST on the Athlon 64 processor. It can be said that this technology can use the processor's resources more reasonably: When we run an application, if 100% is not required to use the processor, the processor does not need to work in full speed mode, and the frequency of the processor will be Reduce, which can also reduce the heat and power of the processor. If the application requires maximum processor performance, the processor frequency will rise to its nominal frequency, and the voltage is also retracted to the default operating voltage. This feature requires an operating system to support, and Windows XP SP2 has fully supported this feature. So if you want to enjoy this feature, in addition to having a new processor, you also need to install SP2 upgrade patches. When idle, the frequency and operating voltage (click amplification) as you can see, when the EIST function is enabled, Pentium 4 has declined at the time of idle, from 3.6GHz to 2.8GHz. The decrease was 22%. In contrast, the ATHLON 64 FX-55 processor can be fell from the default 2.6 GHz to 1.2 GHz from the default, 53%. The maximum benefit of reducing the frequency is to reduce power consumption. Intel said that it is assumed that the electricity bill is 6 cents / kW, a company with 10,000 PCs saves $ 80,000 per year. Even if there is no EIST, we also found that the heat of the new Pentium 4 660 is also lower than the Pentium 4 processor at the same frequency before, which is a quite positive improvement. Let's take a look at the actual effect of this new processor! We use the same configured hardware settings to measure the total power consumption of work. (2 x 512MB memory, GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-E graphics card, WD RAPTOR hard disk, PLEXTOR DVD RW, Enermax 600W power). From the figure below, you can see that Pentium 4 660's power consumption is still much higher than the Athlon64 of the same price bit.
When the system is idle, the power consumption of the EIST Technology Pentium 4 660 has dropped by 15W, but the effect is not as obvious as the AMD system: AMD system is reduced by 60W in idle. It is worth noting that Intel prepares new packaging for its 600 system processor, and the color of the packaging box in different regions is different. In addition to packaging, you have to pay attention to the logo, if you see the "2MB L2 Cache" tag on the box, it means that the chip is based on the "Prescott-2M" core. In addition, there are some notices on 64bit compatibility on the package, let you know that the chip supports EM64T technology. Surprisingly, the original Socket-775 fan-775 fan equipped with the box Pentium 4 660 also improved. Unlike the previous Socket-775 Pentium 4 radiator design, Pentium 4 660 furnished fans increased the seaflo, but the size of the sector became smaller. In addition, other design did not change. The peak speed of the new fan is 2100 rpm, and the speed of the old version is 2500 rpm, which means that the new system is quieter. Left is Intel original new Socket-775 fan; right as the old version of the original Socket-775 fan so the new version of the heat sink is improved? From the figure we can see that the new P4 660 processor and its new radiator's maximum thermal load is the peak 145F, still hot than the AMD's Athlon64 processor. In the following test we found its temperature and even reached 170F. It seems that the calories of Prescott-2M are still quite terrible, and they are not compared to previous processors. Second, the test platform
Intel Pentium 4 system configuration
processor
Intel Pentium 4 660 (3.6 GHz) -32K L1, 2048K L2 Cache
RAM
· 2 x Corsair DDR2-533 (PC-4200) memory, capacity is 1GB · CAS 5, 5, 5 latency, running in DDR2-533 speed
Motherboard
· ASUS P5AD2-E premium motherboard · Intel 925xe chipset · Install Intel 6.01 chipset driver
Graphics card
· NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB PCI Express X16 · Install NVIDIA ForceWare 66.93 Driver
hard disk
Western Digital Raptor 74GB, 10000RPM, 8MB Cached, Serial ATA / 150
operating system
· Windows XP Professional Edition, default installation · Install Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Direct X 9.0c · Windows XP x64 Edition RC2, default installation
AMD ATHLON64 system configuration
processor
AMD ATHLON64 4000 (2.4 GHz) -128K L1, 1024K L2 Cache
RAM
· 2 x Samsung DDR-400 (PC-3200) memory, total capacity is 1GB · CAS 3, 3, 3 Latency, running in DDR-400 speed
Motherboard
· ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE motherboard · NVIDIA NFORCE4 SLI chipset · Install NVIDIA ForceWare 6.39 driver
Graphics card
· NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB PCI Express X16 · Install NVIDIA ForceWare 66.93 Drive
hard disk
Western Digital Raptor 74GB, 10000RPM, 8MB Cached, Serial ATA / 150
operating system
· Windows XP Professional Edition, default installation · Install Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Direct X 9.0c · Windows XP x64 Edition RC2, the default installation Pentium 4 660 running screenshot in Windows XP X64 Edition (click to enlarge) 600 series of additional one Important features are EIST technology and well-known enhanced SpeedStep technology. When SpeedStep is enabled, it allows the Pentium 4 600 Series processor to reduce operating frequencies at low loads, which significantly reduces their work calories and power consumption at runtime. The EIST technology can adjust the working frequency and voltage of the processor based on the workload of the processor, just like they are in the laptop. On the desktop processor, AMD has introduced Cool'QUIET technology similar to the EIST on the Athlon 64 processor. It can be said that this technology can use the processor's resources more reasonably: When we run an application, if 100% is not required to use the processor, the processor does not need to work in full speed mode, and the frequency of the processor will be Reduce, which can also reduce the heat and power of the processor. If the application requires maximum processor performance, the processor frequency will rise to its nominal frequency, and the voltage is also retracted to the default operating voltage. This feature requires an operating system to support, and Windows XP SP2 has fully supported this feature. So if you want to enjoy this feature, in addition to having a new processor, you also need to install SP2 upgrade patches. When idle, the frequency and operating voltage (click amplification) as you can see, when the EIST function is enabled, Pentium 4 has declined at the time of idle, from 3.6GHz to 2.8GHz. The decrease was 22%. In contrast, the ATHLON 64 FX-55 processor can be fell from the default 2.6 GHz to 1.2 GHz from the default, 53%. The maximum benefit of reducing the frequency is to reduce power consumption. Intel said that it is assumed that the electricity bill is 6 cents / kW, a company with 10,000 PCs saves $ 80,000 per year. Even if there is no EIST, we also found that the heat of the new Pentium 4 660 is also lower than the Pentium 4 processor at the same frequency before, which is a quite positive improvement. Let's take a look at the actual effect of this new processor! We use the same configured hardware settings to measure the total power consumption of work. (2 x 512MB memory, GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-E graphics card, WD RAPTOR hard disk, PLEXTOR DVD RW, Enermax 600W power). From the figure below, you can see that Pentium 4 660's power consumption is still much higher than the Athlon64 of the same price bit. When the system is idle, the power consumption of the EIST Technology Pentium 4 660 has dropped by 15W, but the effect is not as obvious as the AMD system: AMD system is reduced by 60W in idle.
It is worth noting that Intel prepares new packaging for its 600 system processor, and the color of the packaging box in different regions is different. In addition to packaging, you have to pay attention to the logo, if you see the "2MB L2 Cache" tag on the box, it means that the chip is based on the "Prescott-2M" core. In addition, there are some notices on 64bit compatibility on the package, let you know that the chip supports EM64T technology. Surprisingly, the original Socket-775 fan-775 fan equipped with the box Pentium 4 660 also improved. Unlike the previous Socket-775 Pentium 4 radiator design, Pentium 4 660 furnished fans increased the seaflo, but the size of the sector became smaller. In addition, other design did not change. The peak speed of the new fan is 2100 rpm, and the speed of the old version is 2500 rpm, which means that the new system is quieter. Left is Intel original new Socket-775 fan; right as the old version of the original Socket-775 fan so the new version of the heat sink is improved? From the figure we can see that the new P4 660 processor and its new radiator's maximum thermal load is the peak 145F, still hot than the AMD's Athlon64 processor. In the following test we found its temperature and even reached 170F. It seems that the calories of Prescott-2M are still quite terrible, and they are not compared to previous processors. Second, test platform Intel Pentium 4 system configuration
processor
Intel Pentium 4 660 (3.6 GHz) -32K L1, 2048K L2 Cache
RAM
· 2 x Corsair DDR2-533 (PC-4200) memory, capacity is 1GB · CAS 5, 5, 5 latency, running in DDR2-533 speed
Motherboard
· ASUS P5AD2-E premium motherboard · Intel 925xe chipset · Install Intel 6.01 chipset driver
Graphics card
· NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB PCI Express X16 · Install NVIDIA ForceWare 66.93 Driver
hard disk
Western Digital Raptor 74GB, 10000RPM, 8MB Cached, Serial ATA / 150
operating system
· Windows XP Professional Edition, default installation · Install Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Direct X 9.0c · Windows XP x64 Edition RC2, default installation
AMD ATHLON64 system configuration
processor
AMD ATHLON64 4000 (2.4 GHz) -128K L1, 1024K L2 Cache
RAM
· 2 x Samsung DDR-400 (PC-3200) memory, total capacity is 1GB · CAS 3, 3, 3 Latency, running in DDR-400 speed
Motherboard
· ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE motherboard · NVIDIA NFORCE4 SLI chipset · Install NVIDIA ForceWare 6.39 driver
Graphics card
· NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB PCI Express X16 · Install NVIDIA ForceWare 66.93 Drive
hard disk
Western Digital Raptor 74GB, 10000RPM, 8MB Cached, Serial ATA / 150
operating system
· Windows XP Professional Edition, default installation · Install Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Direct X 9.0c · Windows XP x64 Edition RC2, the default installation Pentium 4 660 running screenshot in Windows XP X64 Edition (click to enlarge) 600 series of additional one Important features are EIST technology and well-known enhanced SpeedStep technology. When SpeedStep is enabled, it allows the Pentium 4 600 Series processor to reduce operating frequencies at low loads, which significantly reduces their work calories and power consumption at runtime. The EIST technology can adjust the working frequency and voltage of the processor based on the workload of the processor, just like they are in the laptop. On the desktop processor, AMD has introduced Cool'QUIET technology similar to the EIST on the Athlon 64 processor. It can be said that this technology can use the processor's resources more reasonably: When we run an application, if 100% is not required to use the processor, the processor does not need to work in full speed mode, and the frequency of the processor will be Reduce, which can also reduce the heat and power of the processor. If the application requires maximum processor performance, the processor frequency will rise to its nominal frequency, and the voltage is also retracted to the default operating voltage. This feature requires an operating system to support, and Windows XP SP2 has fully supported this feature. So if you want to enjoy this feature, in addition to having a new processor, you also need to install SP2 upgrade patches. When idle, the frequency and operating voltage (click amplification) as you can see, when the EIST function is enabled, Pentium 4 has declined at the time of idle, from 3.6GHz to 2.8GHz. The decrease was 22%. In contrast, the ATHLON 64 FX-55 processor can be fell from the default 2.6 GHz to 1.2 GHz from the default, 53%. The maximum benefit of reducing the frequency is to reduce power consumption. Intel said that it is assumed that the electricity bill is 6 cents / kW, a company with 10,000 PCs saves $ 80,000 per year. Even if there is no EIST, we also found that the heat of the new Pentium 4 660 is also lower than the Pentium 4 processor at the same frequency before, which is a quite positive improvement. Let's take a look at the actual effect of this new processor! We use the same configured hardware settings to measure the total power consumption of work. (2 x 512MB memory, GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-E graphics card, WD RAPTOR hard disk, PLEXTOR DVD RW, Enermax 600W power). From the figure below, you can see that Pentium 4 660's power consumption is still much higher than the Athlon64 of the same price bit. When the system is idle, the power consumption of the EIST Technology Pentium 4 660 has dropped by 15W, but the effect is not as obvious as the AMD system: AMD system is reduced by 60W in idle.
It is worth noting that Intel prepares new packaging for its 600 system processor, and the color of the packaging box in different regions is different. In addition to packaging, you have to pay attention to the logo, if you see the "2MB L2 Cache" tag on the box, it means that the chip is based on the "Prescott-2M" core. In addition, there are some notices on 64bit compatibility on the package, let you know that the chip supports EM64T technology. Surprisingly, the original Socket-775 fan-775 fan equipped with the box Pentium 4 660 also improved. Unlike the previous Socket-775 Pentium 4 radiator design, Pentium 4 660 furnished fans increased the seaflo, but the size of the sector became smaller. In addition, other design did not change. The peak speed of the new fan is 2100 rpm, and the speed of the old version is 2500 rpm, which means that the new system is quieter. Left is Intel original new Socket-775 fan; right as the old version of the original Socket-775 fan so the new version of the heat sink is improved? From the figure we can see that the new P4 660 processor and its new radiator's maximum thermal load is the peak 145F, still hot than the AMD's Athlon64 processor. In the following test we found its temperature and even reached 170F. It seems that the calories of Prescott-2M are still quite terrible, and they are not compared to previous processors. Second, test platform Intel Pentium 4 system configuration
processor
Intel Pentium 4 660 (3.6 GHz) -32K L1, 2048K L2 Cache
RAM
· 2 x Corsair DDR2-533 (PC-4200) memory, capacity is 1GB · CAS 5, 5, 5 latency, running in DDR2-533 speed
Motherboard
· ASUS P5AD2-E premium motherboard · Intel 925xe chipset · Install Intel 6.01 chipset driver
Graphics card
· NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB PCI Express X16 · Install NVIDIA ForceWare 66.93 Driver
hard disk
Western Digital Raptor 74GB, 10000RPM, 8MB Cached, Serial ATA / 150
operating system
· Windows XP Professional Edition, default installation · Install Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Direct X 9.0c · Windows XP x64 Edition RC2, default installation
AMD ATHLON64 system configuration
processor
AMD ATHLON64 4000 (2.4 GHz) -128K L1, 1024K L2 Cache
RAM
· 2 x Samsung DDR-400 (PC-3200) memory, total capacity is 1GB · CAS 3, 3, 3 Latency, running in DDR-400 speed
Motherboard
· ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE motherboard · NVIDIA NFORCE4 SLI chipset · Install NVIDIA ForceWare 6.39 driver
Graphics card
· NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB PCI Express X16 · Install NVIDIA ForceWare 66.93 Drive
hard disk
Western Digital Raptor 74GB, 10000RPM, 8MB Cached, Serial ATA / 150
operating system
· Windows XP Professional Edition, Default Installation · Installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Direct X 9.0c · Windows XP x64 Edition RC2, Default Installation Test Software: · Adobe Photoshop Cs · Alias | Wavefront Maya 6.0 · Crytek Far Cry 1.3 · Discreet 3D Studio Max 7.0 · id Software Doom 3 1.0 · LAME 3.96 MP3 Encoder · Macromedia Flash MX 2004 · Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0 · SiSoft Sandra 2005 · Valve Software Half-Life 2 Third, performance testing 1, SiSoft Sandra 2005 test SiSoft Sandra 2005 is A comprehensive test software is mainly used to test the performance of the primary PC component, which mainly emphasizes the system's processor, memory or multimedia performance. Sandra 2005 supports the hardware and operating systems of X86 (32Bit) and X86-64 (64bit). First, let's start with the integrated test to compare Pentium 4 660, Athlon64 4000 these two prices are the same top processor. We test these two processors under the 32bit and 64bit operating systems to see what performance, changes in 23bit, 64bit running mode. Sisoft Sandra 2005 supports both 32bit and 64bit two arithmetic modes, which show some interesting comprehensive test results. In the 64bit operating system, Pentium 4 performs very stable in mathematical operations and multimedia applications, and Athlon64 4000 has a small performance in mathematical operations, but performance is greatly reduced in multimedia application testing. And the performance changes in the memory test are not very large. 2, game performance Test Valve's Half-Life 2 is a very popular game, which is relatively high. We have chosen to test from the internal recorded demo scene to the "Kliener's Lab" scene. Doom3 is one of the games that use the most GPU / processor performance test on the market. We test the "Site 3" map. The test is run twice, the second result is the final test score. FAR CRY is a first-person shooting game that supports DX9.0, and its amazing technical performance has been strongly concerned by many players. We use the default settings of the game when we test, and the average frame speed is used as a test score. Although Pentium 4 660 is integrated with 2MB of L2 cache, it is still behind Athlon64 in terms of games - Athlon64 4000 in all three game test projects beat Pentium 4 660. Speaking of the words, although the gap is small, if you are a hardcore game player, I believe you will still choose Athlon64. Interestingly, in these three tests, the performance of two processors in 64bit mode is slightly lower than the performance in 32 bit mode. This also explains that when the game developer launches 64bit version of the game, the game player will not benefit from 64-bit operations.
3, 3D Application Test 3D Studio Max 7.0 is one of the most popular 3D design software on the current market. We draw the "Radiosity" scenario comes with the program, which contains a lot of light and shadow. The less time consumed by the entire drawing process, the better the corresponding system performance. Wavefront Maya 6.0 is the leader in 3D modeling software, reflects the strength of CPU performance through a variety of scene tests, MAYA 6.0 uses SMP (symmetrical multiprocessing) working mode, lower time represents higher performance. Adobe Photoshop CS is one of the best image editing software. In the test, we run a range of preset filter processing applications and record the time required to complete these processing. The total consumption of the total consumption of each test is added, the less performance is, the better the score. When Athlon64 defeated Pentium 4660 in the game, the Pentium 4 600 Series defended Intel's traditional advantages in the 2D / 3D application - Pentium 4 firmly dressed in the leadership of the leaders in the three tests. These applications run performance in two operating systems, but there is an exception to exception ----- That runs MAYA 6.0 in Windows XP X64 Edition performance than in 32bit Window system There is a big decline. 4. Multimedia coding test Macromedia's Flash MX 2004 is a vector graphics drawing tool. Our test content is to re-put a 50MB MPEG file with Flash MX, and we record the time consumed at 100% quality level. Microsoft's Windows Media Encoder 9 is a free multimedia coding software. Our test content is converted into a 200MB. MPG file via Windows Media Encoder 9 to .wmv files. During the encoding process, the video quality level is selected as DVD quality, and the audio quality level is selected as CD audio quality. The MP3 encoding application is an extreme test for the CPU. We use the encoder as the famous Lame 3.96, which optimizes the MMX, 3DNOW, and SSE command sets. The test content is a MP3 file that compresses a 200MB size .WAV file to 160 kbps, and record the time.
Multimedia coding tests are quite high for processors, and we have seen some interesting results here. In Flash MX and Windows Media Encoder 9.0 test, the performance of Pentium 4 660 is quite satisfactory, and the victory in the Lame MP3 test is Athlon64 4000 . The application runs under 64bit Windows and does not differ from 32bit Windows XP Professional. Conclusion: Intel's second-generation Prescott processor seems to have great improvements to the first generation of Prescott architecture, although Intel does not have a thorough improvement, the basic architecture is still the same. However, AMD's Athlon64 processor is also constantly improving, the calorie is smaller, the power consumption is lower and the performance is more dynamic in the game. On the other hand, Pentium 4 still has absolute advantages in 3D design applications, which all benefit them to Hyper-Threading technology. So all everything is almost the same as the battle of Athlon64 and Pentium 4 last year. But we cannot deny that the new 600 series processor is moving towards a positive direction. We are very happy to see that Intel is gradually transitioning the desktop processor to the X86-64 era. In this way, Intel and AMD have already have cheap desktop 64-bit system solutions for us to choose, and Windows XP x64 Edition is also getting closer to us. This appears. Intel's X86-X64 has almost provided the same function as AMD schemes, so software developers should now be breathable, no longer worrying about developing two versions of two versions for two different platforms. At the same time, we are also very happy that Intel will introduce SpeedStep technology on the mobile processor into the desktop platform, although the power consumption on the new P4 of SpeedStep technology is still higher than AMD's Athlon64, but we cannot deny its power consumption has been old P4 has improved. In addition, the 2MB L2 caching does not seem to have much performance improvement, but we think this is also a place where you can appeal, after all, there is still something in some applications. However, the biggest problem facing Intel is how to sell their 600 series of processors. Some mean, these chips belong to the next show, and even Intel mentioned them at this year's IDF forum. In particular, Intel has recently fried their dual-core processors, the first Pentium-D (dual core) chip will also debut in the second half of this year. Importantly, even though we actually love the Pentium 4 660, Pentium 4 660 is also a quite excellent product, but if we want us to choose, we will still choose Athlon64 4000 processor: The price is the same And Athlon64 4000 performance, power control is better than Pentium 4 660.
3, 3D Application Test 3D Studio Max 7.0 is one of the most popular 3D design software on the current market. We draw the "Radiosity" scenario comes with the program, which contains a lot of light and shadow. The less time consumed by the entire drawing process, the better the corresponding system performance. Wavefront Maya 6.0 is the leader in 3D modeling software, reflects the strength of CPU performance through a variety of scene tests, MAYA 6.0 uses SMP (symmetrical multiprocessing) working mode, lower time represents higher performance. Adobe Photoshop CS is one of the best image editing software. In the test, we run a range of preset filter processing applications and record the time required to complete these processing. The total consumption of the total consumption of each test is added, the less performance is, the better the score. When Athlon64 defeated Pentium 4660 in the game, the Pentium 4 600 Series defended Intel's traditional advantages in the 2D / 3D application - Pentium 4 firmly dressed in the leadership of the leaders in the three tests. These applications run performance in two operating systems, but there is an exception to exception ----- That runs MAYA 6.0 in Windows XP X64 Edition performance than in 32bit Window system There is a big decline. 4. Multimedia coding test Macromedia's Flash MX 2004 is a vector graphics drawing tool. Our test content is to re-put a 50MB MPEG file with Flash MX, and we record the time consumed at 100% quality level. Microsoft's Windows Media Encoder 9 is a free multimedia coding software. Our test content is converted into a 200MB. MPG file via Windows Media Encoder 9 to .wmv files. During the encoding process, the video quality level is selected as DVD quality, and the audio quality level is selected as CD audio quality. The MP3 encoding application is an extreme test for the CPU. We use the encoder as the famous Lame 3.96, which optimizes the MMX, 3DNOW, and SSE command sets. The test content is a MP3 file that compresses a 200MB size .WAV file to 160 kbps, and record the time.
