Intel Presler 955: Benchmarking the First 65nm CPU - Benchmarking Pentium 955 EE vs AMD FX60
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Benchmarking, Pentium 955 EE vs. AMD FX60
Now let's see how the 955XE stacked up against AMD's flagship, the FX60.
The 955XE is clocked at 3.46GHz, with a 1066FSB and DDR2-666 3-2-2-4. It is up against the FX60 at 2.6GHz, paired with a 2x512MB Crucial Ballistix @ 2-2-2-5.
First, here is SuperPi 1M, a personal favorite of mine:
| Intel Pentium D 955 EE | AMD FX60 |
Super PI 1M | 37.454 seconds | 35.188 seconds. |
The FX60 has a clear advantage. However, both of the CPUs are aimed at multitasking, so it wouldn't be appropriate to just stick with a single threaded test. As a simple solution, we ran 2 simultaneous runs of Super Pi 1M and picked the lower of the two scores.
| Intel Pentium D 955 EE | AMD FX60 |
2x Super PI 1M | 40.484 seconds | 35.813 seconds. |
The FX60 gained an even stronger advantage, no doubt due to the lack bandwidth available to the EE. Now let's try a quad threaded test. No doubt this many threads will be the strong point of the EE, thanks to Hyperthreading allowing it to process 4 threads.
| Intel Pentium D 955 EE | AMD FX60 |
4x Super PI 1M | 53.218 seconds | 74.177 seconds. |
The FX60 falls behind by a great margin in this test as expected, thanks to it having only 2 logical threads as opposed to the 4 on the EE. This also sets the EE at the top for processing tasks which do not have a set limit to threads, like distributed processing such as that done by Stanford University (seen here: http://folding.stanford.edu/).
A quick test between the FX60 running two instances of the F@H client vs. the 955EE running four instances of the F@H client. Over a 24 hour period, the increase in score was record per each CPU.
| Intel Pentium D 955 EE | AMD FX60 |
F@H | 1178 points | 555 points. |
As seen here, this is one field where the EE is really in a league of its own. Of course, the points earned can vary slightly depending on the work units distributed to the client, but the Pentium’s lead here is gigantic.
Now let’s look at some of Sandra's synthetic benchmarks.
| Intel Pentium D 955 EE | AMD FX60 |
Arithmatic (Dhrystone) | 20331 | 21420 |
Arithmatic (Whetstone) | 14131 | 11252 |
Multimedia (Int) | 49861 | 47499 |
Multimedia (Float) | 65803 | 51977 |
These tests put the EE ahead by a decent margin in 3 out of the 4 tests. In the other, it is beaten only slightly. This is no doubt due to the multi-threaded nature of Sandra’s tests, which allows the EE to fully utilize all four of it's logical threads. Most real-life scenarios, however, don't allow this.
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