Performance in Futuremark PCMark04

We see a similar picture in PCMark04 test, too. Again Pentium 4 XE 3.46GHz is only 1%-1.5% faster than Pentium 4 XE 3.4GHz, but at the same time it falls behind Prescott based CPU. So, we can say that in “general” applications measured by SYSMark 2004 and PCMark04 benchmark sets, Pentium 4 XE 3.46GHz turns out hardly worth the money they ask for it. However, PCMark04 also showed that Pentium 4 XE 3.46GHz still manages to outpace the competitor from AMD, Athlon 64 FX-55, which doesn’t support any Hyper-Threading technology actively involved in this benchmark.

The memory subsystem test from PCMark04 set shows that increase in the system bus speed of the new Pentium 4 XE 3.46GHz to 1066MHz has positively affected the bandwidth of the bus between the CPU and the system memory. So here Pentium 4 XE 3.46GHz finally manages to outperform Pentium 4 560, falling real short behind Athlon 64 FX-55 with the integrated memory controller onboard.