Intel's Pentium 4 2.80GHz - Moving to the Head of the Class

General Usage Performance Office Productivity SYSMark 2002 Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.60GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.4BGHz Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.13GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz) 206 199 197 193 191 183 183 181 179 172 161 161 158 155 151 151 148 | 0 | 41 | 82 | 124 | 165 | 206 | 247

General Usage Performance Business Winstone 2001

Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.60GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.13GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz (400MHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.4BGHz Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz) AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz (400MHz) AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz) 73.2 72.3 69.9 69.8 69.8 68.2 67.9 67.6 65.6 65.6 64.5 63.3 63.0 62.5 61.9 60.6 59.3 58.9 | 0 | 15 | 29 | 44 | 59 | 73 | 88

The Athlon XP is much more competitive under Business Winstone 2001, thanks to a much smaller working dataset that fits better within its L2 cache. The 2.80GHz Pentium 4 commands a lead here but not a strong one as most basic business tasks are not very CPU limited to begin with.