 Hexus piFast |
Source: Hexus |
|
Pifast is a
small program that computes Pi to a set amount of decimal places and also
display's how long it takes. Since it tells you how long it takes this then
gives us a basis for charting the results giving a performance indicator for new
and old technology at a glace.
| Hexus piFast
Benchmark Results (Lower is better) |
| CPU |
Seconds |
Ranking |
| Pentium 4 540 (3.2 GHz) |
64 |
   |
| Athlon64 3800+ |
50.5 |
   |
| Athlon64 4000+ (NF3) |
50.69 |
   |
| Athlon64 4000+ (VIA) |
47.56 |
|
| Athlon64 4000+ @ 2.72 GHz (VIA) |
45.33 |
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More number crunching! In these results it is apparent
that the Nvidia Nforce 3/Athlon 64 4000+ combination is lagging a little bit
over the VIA chipset. The Athlon 64 3800+ actually posted a sliver of a better
score. Once again, the socket 775 Intel Pentium 4 540 is left in last place.
The
Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer (POV-Ray) is an all round excellent package,
but there are two things that particularly make it stand out above the rest of
the crowd. Firstly, it's free, and secondly, the source is distributed so you
can compile it on virtually any platform.
Lower
numbers denote faster calculation times (seconds), and hence, better
performance.
| POVray Benchmark
Results(Lower is better) |
| Pawns 10x7AA: |
Seconds |
Ranking |
| Pentium 4 540 (3.2 GHz) |
205 |
|
| Athlon64 3800+ |
120 |
|
| Athlon64 4000+ (NF3) |
120 |
|
| Athlon64 4000+ (VIA) |
121 |
|
| Athlon64 4000+ @ 2.72 GHz (VIA) |
106 |
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Again, nothing new to report here except the dominance of
the Athlon 64 over the Intel processor in this little shootout. The overclocked
Athlon64 4000+ CPU opens up a decent margin on the competition, while the stock
Athlon64 4000+ processors on either chipset platform do nothing to distinguish
themselves from the older Athlon64 3800+ benchmark figures. The extra 512K of cache (for a total of 1MB) does not seem to be making a big difference so far.
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