SiSoft Sandra 2004	Source:Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2004 Benchmark Results
	Multimedia Benchmark		CPU Benchmark		Memory Benchmark
Processors	Integer:	Floating-Point:	Dhrystone:	Whetstone:	Integer:	Float:
AthlonXP 3200+ (NF2 Ultra 200/400)	20159	20729	8318	3459 FPU	3074	2901
Athlon64 3200+ (NF3-250 200/400)	19074	20594	9144	3284 FPU / 4261 SSE2	3064	3065
Athlon64 3800+ (K8T800 Pro 200/400)	17981	23742	10065	3802 FPU / 4966 SSE2	6048	5970
Pentium 4 3.0C (i875P 200/400)	23268	32769	9026	3623 FPU / 6582 SSE2	4704	4740
Pentium 4 540 (915P 200/400)	23763	31607	9158	3207 FPU / 6859 SSE2	5061	5035
Pentium 4 540 (925X 200/533)	23777	31912	9374	3995 FPU / 7082 SSE2	5374	5359
Pentium 4 540 (925X 216/575)	24485	32600	10810	4144 FPU / 7126 SSE2	5071	5010
Units:	it/s	it/s	MIPS	MFLOPS	MB/s	MB/s

At stock speeds the Intel Pentium 4 540 processor shows good multimedia and CPU figures.

POVray	Source: POVray

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
Pawns 10x7AA:	Seconds	Ranking
AthlonXP 3200+ (NF2 Ultra 200/400)	143
Athlon64 3200+ (NF3-250 200/400)	179
Athlon64 3800+ (K8T800 Pro 200/400)	120
Pentium 4 3.0C (i875P 200/400)	145
Pentium 4 540 (915P 200/400)	198
Pentium 4 540 (925X 200/533)	198
Pentium 4 540 (925X 216/575)	192

Very interesting. Both the Athlon 64 3200+ and the Socket 775 Pentium 4 3.2E performed slower than older generation parts.