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Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 955: 65nm, 4 threads and 376M transistors

 by Anand Lal Shimpi on December 30, 2005 11:36 AM EST
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Overall Performance using WorldBench 5

Our final set of overall system performance tests come from WorldBench 5, which is a pretty good tool for looking at older application performance as well as single-threaded performance. 

WorldBench 5 Overall

WorldBench performance is somewhere in-between what we saw with Winstone and SYSMark, with the Pentium Extreme Edition 955 falling behind the Athlon 64 X2 4800+. The majority of the applications in WorldBench are single threaded, so the 4-thread advantage of the Pentium EE 955 isn't able to flex its muscle at all. Not to mention that many of these applications favor the performance of AMD's shorter pipelined architecture.

Overall Performance using SYSMark 2004 3D Rendering Performance using 3dsmax 7
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  • Betwon - Friday, December 30, 2005 - link

    edit:
    Why is it slower the latency of the memory? 101ns is much more than 5x ns. where is the 'on-die' communication? Your test program is wrong?

  • Viditor - Friday, December 30, 2005 - link

    Thanks Anand!

    I don't know if you'll have time, but one of the things lacking in all of the other reviews of the OC XE955 is a comparison to an OC X2 4800...
    Speculation is quite rife, and it would be a good comparison IMNSHO.

    Cheers!

  • Gigahertz19 - Friday, December 30, 2005 - link

    Intel's back...back again...backkkkkkk again..backkkkkkkk again...du dah duh da

  • yacoub - Tuesday, January 3, 2006 - link

    If by "back" you mean finally (barely) able to compete with existing AMD performance, then yes. ;P
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