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Ziff Davis' eTesting Labs
Winstone suite of benchmarking tools, uses every day
professional business and content creation software titles
to analyze over all system performance. The tests
incorporate the following software titles to run timed
executions in a controlled environment and the results are
then generated with a weighted total score:
Business Winstone Tests:
- Five Microsoft Office 2000
applications (Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and
Word)
- Microsoft Project 98
- Lotus Notes R5
- NicoMak WinZip
- Norton AntiVirus
- Netscape Communicator
Content Creation Winstone
Tests:
- Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1
- Adobe Premiere 6.0
- Macromedia Director 8.5
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
UltraDev 4
- Microsoft Windows Media
Encoder 7.01.00.3055
- Netscape Navigator 6/6.01
- Sonic Foundry Sound Forge
5.0c (build 184)
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eTesting Labs Content Creation and Business
Winstone |
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The Pentium 4
means business |
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"i850E, PC1066 and SiS645dx"
scores are representative of a 533MHz system bus
The Business
Winstone tests are fairly dependant upon hard drive
subsystem performance. They are also not as compute
intensive as the Content Creation test. In addition,
the code base and software titles that are utilized, are
significantly older legacy product, not optimized for the
Pentium 4. As a result, the reference Athlon XP 2100+
systems makes a very good showing here, besting all but the
PC1066 driven systems. The SiS645dx is still hindered
by its lack luster drive performance and as such, brings up
the rear.
Content Creation
testing should spread the field out even further however.
"i850E, PC1066 and SiS645dx"
scores are representative of a 533MHz system bus
Interestingly
enough the SiS645dx system makes a very strong showing at
2.4GHz versus the i850E, although the scores are right on
top of each other. Another interesting fact here is
that the 2.4GHz PC1066 setup was in fact faster than the
2.53GHz i850E setup with PC800 RDRAM, lending credence to
the fact that this test is heavily dependant on overall
system bandwidth.
Let's take a
look at how things stack up with MadOnion's new PCMark 2002
benchmarking software.
PCMark 2002 CPU and Memory performance
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