Performance in WinBench99 2.0

One more “elderly” but very useful benchmark for performance testing in everyday applications. First the table with all testing results comes:

So what do we see here? WinBench seems to prefer “professional” models with large cache-buffer. P0 models with 8MB buffer are mostly beloved by C++ test. No wonder, actually, since the reading and writing of relatively small data blocks are very often alternating during project compilation. And in Photoshop the performance difference between P0 and L0 models is no longer that big, although I expected the solutions with 80GB platters to win the leadership here. Maybe the data block size used in this patter are somewhat outdated already, which resulted into a pretty even performance of the L0 and P0 solutions with a slight advantage of the latter? We’ll see later in other benchmarks if that was the case.

I would also like to point out that the models with 80GB platters have been generally ahead of the less dense rivals here (though the advantage is not that great anyway).