Overall System Performance using WorldBench 5

Our final set of overall system performance tests come from WorldBench 5, which is a pretty good tool for looking at older application performance as well as single-threaded performance. 

WorldBench 5

Overall, the Core Duo does extremely well here despite its higher latency cache, offering performance equal to that of the Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and 5% greater than the Pentium M 760. 

The breakdown of the WorldBench 5 score is reported below. Note that the values below are task completion times in seconds with lower numbers translating into better performance.

  AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+  AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+  AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.0GHz/1MB  Intel Core Duo T2500  Intel Pentium M 760
ACD Systems ACDSee PowerPack 5.0 537 574 572 544 545
Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1 339 364 362 319 325
Adobe Premiere 6.5 388 402 400 405 404
Ahead Software Nero Express 6.0.0.3 507 509 506 512 510
Discreet 3ds max 5.1 (DirectX) 254 268 266 256 256
Discreet 3ds max 5.1 (OpenGL) 317 337 333 320 322
Microsoft Office XP with SP-2 524 531 536 531 505
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0 283 304 301 295 415
Mozilla 1.4 360 440 411 338 310
Multitasking: Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder 445 484 445 439 634
MusicMatch Jukebox 7.10 483 527 531 511 529
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5 262 278 277 267 400
WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1 401 420 419 396 399

Overall System Performance using SYSMark 2004 Professional Application Performance with 3dsmax, Adobe Premier and Photoshop
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  • ncage - Monday, December 19, 2005 - link

    I swear this is the best first post ive ever seen. Good Post Alex. Ya competition is very good for the market. I think intel is starting to get back on track where they need to be. It all comes down to clock speed and cost at launch. What improvements will we see with the launch of amd's next chip other than ddr2 which right now i don't really care about and possibly more cores (at least for the opteron). I am not dogging amd because for about 3-4 years ive only used AMD chips but i think amd has to raise the bar even more.
  • Calin - Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - link

    DDR2 for AMD would be great at least for a few things:
    moving to single channel DDR2 memory would decrease costs (in mainboards and a bit in processors)
    moving integrated graphics to single or dual channel DDR2 would increase graphic performance and overall system performance in relation to single or dual channel DDR
    As for the high end, I really don't think an increase in memory bandwidth will help - not even for dual core processors. Maybe for a quad core, but quad cores are certainly for servers, and I don't know about registered DDR2 memory to be used in them.

    Hmmm, you could try an Opteron Dual Core with single channel DDR memory, to see how much performance would be lost by going quad core, dual DDR.
  • mlittl3 - Monday, December 19, 2005 - link

    I agree with both Alex and ncage. I really disliked Intel all through out the Pentium4/Net-burst days. They were just releasing marchitecture with no improvements whatsoever. I loved AMD for their innovation and performance/watt.

    Now both companies are equal but I don't think we will see the huge fall AMD suffered from when Intel released the Pentium 4 to compete with the Athlon/K7 architecture. The beauty of competition is showing its bright colors right now. If we only had Intel, we would have a very hot/power consuming inefficient Pentium 4 based on net-burst to play Quake 4 at 5fps right now.

    Its time for the fanboys to turnover a new leaf. Go Intel and AMD!!! We love both you guys.

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