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Tom still doesnt have a clue when it comes to testing SMP systems. His choice of benchmarks is questionable to say the least. A few remarks:
1) Sysmark “internet creation”. Though adding synthetic benchmarks like these doesn’t hurt, I fail to see the point. I work for an internet agency, I can tell you neither our developers or graphic designers are in need of anything faster than a 600 Mhz CPU. Or would you like to visit websites that have 500 Mb graphics ? (Our servers on the other hand could use any performance increase we can get.. Just to install Vignette on our application & database servers takes more than 24 hrs !!!)
2) Quake3. Yeah sure, fun to see, but really, what Quake gamer is going to get a SMP system ? For what ? To play 640x480 ??
3) 3D Mark 2001.. pffffffffff
4) Sandra.. do I need to comment ?
5) I cant wait to see the Win98 benchmarks.. Why not install windows 3.1 while you are at it, Tom ?
So, this leaves us three useful benchmarks for SMP:
1) Flask
2) 3D Max
3) Cinema 4D
All these benchmarks relate to graphics, and most to 3D rendering power. Very specific applications too, that rely very much on software optimisation. Very important if you run one of these apps daily, not useful at all however, if you don’t.
Whatever happened to Photoshop ? CAD, pro engineer and stuff ? Software development ? Database server performance ? Webserver performance ?
There is not even *one* Unix/Linux benchmark in there. I’d really like to see what a dual A4 is worth compared to a dual Xeon as a *server* platform.
When I read his conclusion, I almost fainted:
“Right now, the release of AMD's new dual-Athlon chipset seems more like a technology demonstration rather than a full-blown product release. We have learned that dual-AthlonMP is performing very well indeed, but as long as AMD doesn't supply AthlonMP at high enough clock speeds, Intel's Xeon 4 solution has a clear performance advantage. “
Yeah, it does.. In Sandra, Quake3, Sysmark. The typical applications that I will run on a SMP server (or workstation).
If you want to have a look of how a dual A4 performs on more typical server/ws applications, have a look <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1483" target="_new"> here at Anand’s review </A>. And lets just hope Aces gives us a real review…
THG was a great reference in the good old Monster Truck Madness days, but he hasn’t evolved much since..
---- Owner of the only Dell computer with a AMD chip
1) Sysmark “internet creation”. Though adding synthetic benchmarks like these doesn’t hurt, I fail to see the point. I work for an internet agency, I can tell you neither our developers or graphic designers are in need of anything faster than a 600 Mhz CPU. Or would you like to visit websites that have 500 Mb graphics ? (Our servers on the other hand could use any performance increase we can get.. Just to install Vignette on our application & database servers takes more than 24 hrs !!!)
2) Quake3. Yeah sure, fun to see, but really, what Quake gamer is going to get a SMP system ? For what ? To play 640x480 ??
3) 3D Mark 2001.. pffffffffff
4) Sandra.. do I need to comment ?
5) I cant wait to see the Win98 benchmarks.. Why not install windows 3.1 while you are at it, Tom ?
So, this leaves us three useful benchmarks for SMP:
1) Flask
2) 3D Max
3) Cinema 4D
All these benchmarks relate to graphics, and most to 3D rendering power. Very specific applications too, that rely very much on software optimisation. Very important if you run one of these apps daily, not useful at all however, if you don’t.
Whatever happened to Photoshop ? CAD, pro engineer and stuff ? Software development ? Database server performance ? Webserver performance ?
There is not even *one* Unix/Linux benchmark in there. I’d really like to see what a dual A4 is worth compared to a dual Xeon as a *server* platform.
When I read his conclusion, I almost fainted:
“Right now, the release of AMD's new dual-Athlon chipset seems more like a technology demonstration rather than a full-blown product release. We have learned that dual-AthlonMP is performing very well indeed, but as long as AMD doesn't supply AthlonMP at high enough clock speeds, Intel's Xeon 4 solution has a clear performance advantage. “
Yeah, it does.. In Sandra, Quake3, Sysmark. The typical applications that I will run on a SMP server (or workstation).
If you want to have a look of how a dual A4 performs on more typical server/ws applications, have a look <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1483" target="_new"> here at Anand’s review </A>. And lets just hope Aces gives us a real review…
THG was a great reference in the good old Monster Truck Madness days, but he hasn’t evolved much since..
---- Owner of the only Dell computer with a AMD chip