Since most of the applications used in SysMark2001 don't have SSE2 code written into it, the P4 doesn't do too well here. Just like Intel said, with marginal overclock, the numbers shoot up quite a bit! The P4 needs to have a high clock speed.

Winstone 2001	Source: Zdnet

Content Creation Winstone 2001 keeps multiple applications open at once and switches among those applications. Content Creation Winstone 2001's activities focus on what we call "hot spots," periods of activity that make your PC really work--the times where you're likely to see an hourglass or a progress bar.

Business Winstone is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running today's Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98 ME, Windows NT 4.0 (SP6 or later), Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP which runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities to produce its performance scores.

Winstone 2001 Benchmark Results
	Processor	Scores	Ranking
1.	Content Creation - 1.5 GHz	54.7
1a.	Content Creation - 1.64 GHz	59.2
2.	Business Winstone - 1.5 GHz	37.9
2a.	Business Winstone - 1.64 GHz	38.7

The same story is being told here. Because of the longer pipelines, the integer portion of the CPU is quite weak. Again, there are no SSE2 optimizations in this benchmark.

SPECviewPerf 6.1.2	Source: SPEC.org

SPECviewperf™ is a portable OpenGL performance benchmark program written in C. It was developed by IBM. Later updates and significant contributions were made by SGI, Digital and other SPECopc^SM project group members. SPECviewperf provides a vast amount of flexibility in benchmarking OpenGL performance. Currently, the program runs on most implementations of UNIX, Windows NT, Windows 95/98 and Linux.Higher numbers equate to better performance.

SPECviewperf 6.1.2 Benchmark Results
	Processor / Test	Score	Ranking
	Light_04
1.	Intel Pentium4 1.5 GHz	7.23
2.	Intel Pentium4 1.64 GHz	7.45
	DRV_07
1.	Intel Pentium4 1.5 GHz	18.49
2.	Intel Pentium4 1.64 GHz	18.59
	DX_06
1.	Intel Pentium4 1.5 GHz	21.87
2.	Intel Pentium4 1.64 GHz	23.26

SPECviewperf simply brings the P4 to it's knees. For the first time in history, with the Pentium4 Intel released a CPU with lousy FPU power. The reason behind this is because they're banking that SSE2 will be adopted relatively quick since even AMD is going to be using it. Also, most people who buy P4's for 3D applications won't use something this old.

Sisoft Sandra 2001	Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

SiSoft Sandra 2001 Benchmark Results
	Intel Pentium4	Score
	Multimedia Benchmark
1.	Integer SSE - 1.5 GHz	6086 it/s
1a.	Integer SSE - 1.64 GHz	6556 it/s
2.	Floating-Point SSE - 1.5 GHz	7345 it/s
2a.	Floating-Point SSE - 1.64 GHz	7957 it/s
	CPU Benchmark
3.	Dhrystone ALU - 1.5 GHz	2965 MIPS
3a.	Dhrystone ALU - 1.64 GHz	3174 MIPs
4.	Whetstone FPU - 1.5 GHz	792 (FPU)/1862 (SSE2) MFLOPS
4a.	Whetstone FPU - 1.64 GHz	867 (FPU)/2022 (SSE2) MFLOPS
	Memory Benchmark
5.	Integer ALU - 1.5 GHz	2067 MB/s
5a.	Integer ALU - 1.64 GHz	2259 MB/s
6.	Float FPU - 1.5 GHz	2068 MB/s
6a.	Float FPU - 1.64 GHz	2251 MB/s

Sandra 2002 is very good at testing the P4's theoretical power. While the numbers aren't spectacular, one thing you should notice is, again with the little increase in clock speed, the scores DO go up quite dramatically. This shows exactly what Intel said, the P4 was made to scale high.