The latest benchmark utility from Ziff Davis, Content Creation, is described as a system-level, application-based benchmark. Using Adobe Photoshop 5.0, Adobe Premiere 5.1, Macromedia Director 7.0, DreamWeaver 2.0, Netscape Navigator 4.6, and Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge 4.5, CC Winstone 2000 applies stress on a system's CPU to determine real-world content creation performance.
UPDATE:
Now that AMD has announced both the Athlon 900MHz and 950MHz CPUs, we have revisited yesterday's 1GHz review to add those two CPUs to our benchmark scores. While we were at it we removed 128MB of RAM and re-ran the 1GHz scores. As you can see, the only score that was impacted was Content Creation 2000. Performing admirably, to say the least, AMD's 1GHz CPU still edges ahead of its competition in part, this can be attributed to the increase in clock speed, but we can also conclude that the KX133 platform itself is responsible for enhanced performance.
With the purpose of testing the rendering capabilities of a CPU, 3D WinBench 2000 runs several NULL processor tests, determining CPU speed - eliminating the video card as a bottleneck.
In barely inching past the 800MHz Coppermine, we again see where an on-die cache would be of great utility. With SSE and an on-die cache, the Pentium III is able to maintain a clock for clock advantage running 3D rendering routines equally optimized for both processors.
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