Performance in Archiving Applications

Despite faster system bus, Pentium 4 XE 3.46GHz processor is just a little bit faster than the predecessor in WinRAR. Well, there is nothing to be surprised with actually: data archiving is very critical to the latency of the bus between the CPU and system memory, rather than to its bandwidth. By the way, Prescott based CPU from Intel performs much faster in this test, which can be certainly explained by more efficient hardware data prefetch algorithms implemented in this core. However, even Pentium 4 560 is considerably behind Athlon 64 processors from AMD, which feature built-in memory controller working with DDR400 SDRAM.

Performance in Anti-Virus Tools

During the antivirus check tests by one of the most widely spread applications, the winner’s laurels go to AMD Athlon 64 processor family.

Performance in Image Editing Software

Despite the 2MB L3 cache, one of the most popular graphics editors doesn’t favor Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processors, so that they lose to the regular Pentium 4 560 as well as to the competitor’s Athlon 64 processors.