ABOUT BENCH FORUMS PODCAST LOGIN REGISTER
PC Components
Smartphones & tablets
Systems
ENTERPRISE & IT
GUIDES

Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 955: 65nm, 4 threads and 376M transistors

 by Anand Lal Shimpi on December 30, 2005 11:36 AM EST
84 Comments | Add A Comment
84 Comments
Overall Performance using Winstone 2004

Business Winstone 2004

Business Winstone 2004 tests the following applications in various usage scenarios:
. Microsoft Access 2002
. Microsoft Excel 2002
. Microsoft FrontPage 2002
. Microsoft Outlook 2002
. Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
. Microsoft Project 2002
. Microsoft Word 2002
. Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003
. WinZip 8.1

Business Winstone 2004

The Pentium EE 955 does a little better than the previous generation Extreme Edition, but AMD continues to be the dominant performer here. Presler's 27 cycle L2 cache doesn't exactly help it out here, so it's not much of a surprise.

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 tests the following applications in various usage scenarios:
. Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1
. Adobe® Premiere® 6.50
. Macromedia® Director MX 9.0
. Macromedia® Dreamweaver MX 6.1
. Microsoft® Windows MediaTM Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
. NewTek's LightWave® 3D 7.5b
. SteinbergTM WaveLabTM 4.0f
All chips were tested with Lightwave set to spawn 4 threads.

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004

Once again, the EE 955 offers a performance improvement over the EE 840, but at best, it is equal to the performance of the Athlon 64 X2 3800+.

Dual Core and Hyper Threading: Detriment or Not? Overall Performance using SYSMark 2004
PRINT THIS ARTICLE
Comments Locked

84 Comments

View All Comments

  • Betwon - Friday, December 30, 2005 - link

    edit:
    Why is it slower the latency of the memory? 101ns is much more than 5x ns. where is the 'on-die' communication? Your test program is wrong?

  • Viditor - Friday, December 30, 2005 - link

    Thanks Anand!

    I don't know if you'll have time, but one of the things lacking in all of the other reviews of the OC XE955 is a comparison to an OC X2 4800...
    Speculation is quite rife, and it would be a good comparison IMNSHO.

    Cheers!

  • Gigahertz19 - Friday, December 30, 2005 - link

    Intel's back...back again...backkkkkkk again..backkkkkkkk again...du dah duh da

  • yacoub - Tuesday, January 3, 2006 - link

    If by "back" you mean finally (barely) able to compete with existing AMD performance, then yes. ;P
Copyright © 2024. All rights reserved.
BENCH
TOPICS
FOLLOW
ABOUT

Log in

Don't have an account? Sign up now