Prelude to Benchmarks / Sysmark 2004 Results

The details of how the Shuttle XPC SN27P2 test system was configured for benchmarking; the specific hardware, software drivers, operating system and benchmark versions is indicated below. In the second column are the general specs for the reference platforms this nForce 570 Ultra based system is to be compared against. Please take a moment to look over PCSTATS test system configurations before moving on to the individual benchmark results on the next page.

PCSTATS Test System Configurations

test system reference system #1 reference system #2 processor: amd Athlon64 X2 5000+ Intel Pentium D 940 Clock Speed: 13 x 200 MHz = 2.6 GHz 16 x 200 MHz = 3.2 GHz Motherboard: Shuttle XPC SN27P2 Asus M2N32SLI-DLX (NF 590 SLI) Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X) Videocard: MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E Memory: Corsair Twin2X2048-8500 Hard Drive: 150GB Western Digital Raptor WD1500AD 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD740 CDROM: AOpen Combo 52x PowerSupply: PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 510 SLI Heatsink: AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ Reference Shuttle Stock HSF Thermaltake Jungle 512 Software Setup: Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 nVIDIA Forceware 9.34 nVIDIA Forceware 91.27 Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 Intel INF 7.22 nVIDIA Forceware 91.27 Benchmarks: SYSMark 2004 Business Winstone 2004 Content Creation 2004 Super Pi SiSoft Sandra 2005 PCMark05 3DMark05 3DMark06 FarCry Doom 3 Quake 4

SYSmark2004	Source: Bapco

SYSmark 2004 is BAPCo's latest revision of the mainstream office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark used to characterize the performance of the business client. It is based on a foundation of extensive research into emerging usage models and computing trends and incorporates the latest benchmarking methodologies to evaluate platform technologies. SYSmark 2004 contains scientifically designed workloads that represent the range of activities that an office productivity or Internet content creation work may encounter. In addition to extensive validation across multiple platforms, users can be sure of a consistent and reliable performance comparison.

SYSmark2004
Internet Overall:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	287
Asus M2N32-SLI DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	352
Shuttle XPC SN27P2 (NF 570 200/800)	346
3D Creation:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	257
Asus M2N32-SLI DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	301
Shuttle XPC SN27P2 (NF 570 200/800)	306
2D Creation:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	348
Asus M2N32-SLI DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	426
Shuttle XPC SN27P2 (NF 570 200/800)	421
Web Publication	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	265
Asus M2N32-SLI DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	339
Shuttle XPC SN27P2 (NF 570 200/800)	322
Office Overall:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	207
Asus M2N32-SLI DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	237
Shuttle XPC SN27P2 (NF 570 200/800)	215
Communication:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	189
Asus M2N32-SLI DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	255
Shuttle XPC SN27P2 (NF 570 200/800)	193
Document Creation:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	223
Asus M2N32-SLI DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	257
Shuttle XPC SN27P2 (NF 570 200/800)	252
Data Analysis:	Points	Ranking
Foxconn 975X7AA-8EKRS2H (975X 200/667)	209
Asus M2N32-SLI DLX (NF 590 SLI 200/800)	203
Shuttle XPC SN27P2 (NF 570 200/800)	203

SYSMark2004 numbers are pretty close for all the test systems. The Shuttle XPC SN27P2 is based on the nForce 570 Ultra, and looking at these results we can see there isn't too much of a separation between it and the nForce 590 SLI chipset.