Intel Pentium 4 3.0C – The First 800MHz FSB CPU

General Usage Performance

Although not as performance-critical as content creation applications, it is the set of every day applications like Office and other general usage programs that the majority of users find themselves interacting with the most, thus performance here is also very important.

General Usage/Office Performance Business Winstone 2002 AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (2.167GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.083GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz (875P-800MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz (875P-533MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz (875P-533MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8AGHz Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6AGHz Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz 39.9 38.0 37.5 36.9 35.5 34.9 33.6 33.6 33.5 33.0 32.9 32.8 32.8 32.3 31.9 31.7 31.6 31.0 30.2 30.1 30.1 29.7 29.7 28.7 27.3 26.0 24.5 24.4 23.8 23.4 22.6 21.9 21.3 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 32 | 40 | 48

Here we see a prime example of what happens without proper driver support - the lack of Intel Application Accelerator drivers are holding back the 875P platform, allowing its predecessor to offer higher performance without an 800MHz FSB. In any case, it does not matter as AMD is much stronger here to begin with.