SiSoft SANDRA 2004 SP1 is the latest revision of this popular system benchmark, but it sticks to its roots and supplies a wide range of individual benchmarks and system utilities. The memory bandwidth tests are the most popular section of the SiSoft SANDRA benchmark suite, and highlight the potential performance levels of the CPU-memory subsystem.
Memory performance is a very important consideration in any chipset evaluation, and in terms of basic performance results with dedicated video cards, the memory performance is very close through the various CPU/chipset combinations. The integrated GMA 900 results are quite different, and there is a significant drop in overall memory 915G memory performance with the onboard graphics core enabled.
The SiSoft SANDRA 2004 Floating Point Bandwidth results show the same overall trend lines as the Integer scores, and it's more a confirmation that the memory scores of the various platforms remains consistent between Integer and FPU bandwidth testing.
CINEBENCH 2003 is a system benchmark that uses CINEMA 4D for both CPU and video-based testing. As this is a processor review, we're concentrating on the CPU score, which incidentally, supports both multi-processing and Hyper-Threading.
CINEBENCH 2003 supports Hyper-Threading and really lets the newer Intel processors perform to the top of their capabilities. These results aren't that surprising from the Prescott side of things, as the 925X and 915G post virtually equivalent scores, while the GMA 900 integrated graphics core again takes a performance toll. As has been shown in previous reviews, the Northwood core excels in this particular benchmark, and the Pentium 4 3.4C GHz posts higher scores than even the Pentium 4 560.
