Performance

SYSMark2004

The average performance in “general” applications of different types has been revealed with the help of SYSMark2004 test package. This test set is a kind of industry standard, since it has been developed by a committee made up of a few different companies’ reps, including all the parties interested, such as Intel or AMD.

According to the results of SYSMark2004 we see that Athlon 64 platform is on the whole slightly slower than the Intel Pentium 4 based platform. It can be explained by the fact that Pentium 4 supports Hyper-Threading, which is a very efficient thing for a multi-threaded applications modeled by this particular benchmark. However, it would be incorrect to say that Athlon 64 architecture lost the SYSMark2004 test, because Athlon 64 FX-55 with the working frequency raised to 2.6GHz is still faster than the top Pentium 4 and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition models.

Everything I have just said is also proven by the diagram given below showing the average SYSMark2004 performance.