Perpetual benchmark thread... - Page 8

PageFault · 2003-12-07, 23:53

Similar machines, 2.4C's on P4P800, 250 fsb on both, ddr frequency 200. First box has 2 x 256 MB Geil gold dragoon and second box has 256 MB Kingston Hyperx. Use of dual channel memory has no significant effect.

Code:

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
CPU speed: 3000.29 MHz
CPU features: RDTSC, CMOV, PREFETCH, MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 cache size: 8 KB
L2 cache size: 512 KB
L1 cache line size: 64 bytes
L2 cache line size: 128 bytes
TLBS: 64
Prime95 version 23.7, RdtscTiming=1
Best time for 384K FFT length: 12.053 ms.
Best time for 448K FFT length: 14.326 ms.
Best time for 512K FFT length: 16.325 ms.
Best time for 640K FFT length: 19.481 ms.
Best time for 768K FFT length: 23.779 ms.
Best time for 896K FFT length: 28.097 ms.
Best time for 1024K FFT length: 31.503 ms.
Best time for 1280K FFT length: 41.395 ms.
Best time for 1536K FFT length: 50.760 ms.
Best time for 1792K FFT length: 60.324 ms.
Best time for 2048K FFT length: 68.320 ms.

Code:

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
CPU speed: 3000.16 MHz
CPU features: RDTSC, CMOV, PREFETCH, MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 cache size: 8 KB
L2 cache size: 512 KB
L1 cache line size: 64 bytes
L2 cache line size: 128 bytes
TLBS: 64
Prime95 version 23.7, RdtscTiming=1
Best time for 384K FFT length: 12.198 ms.
Best time for 448K FFT length: 14.529 ms.
Best time for 512K FFT length: 16.594 ms.
Best time for 640K FFT length: 19.801 ms.
Best time for 768K FFT length: 24.143 ms.
Best time for 896K FFT length: 28.453 ms.
Best time for 1024K FFT length: 32.044 ms.
Best time for 1280K FFT length: 42.284 ms.
Best time for 1536K FFT length: 51.669 ms.
Best time for 1792K FFT length: 61.328 ms.
Best time for 2048K FFT length: 69.770 ms.

E_tron · 2003-12-08, 03:07

Here are the Results from a VIA C3 "E" series processor.

VIA Samuel 2
CPU speed: 799.96 MHz
CPU features: RDTSC, MMX
L1 cache size: 64 KB
L2 cache size: 64 KB
L1 cache line size: 32 bytes
L2 cache line size: 32 bytes
TLBS: 128
Prime95 version 23.7, RdtscTiming=1
Best time for 384K FFT length: 369.462 ms.
Best time for 448K FFT length: 446.807 ms.
Best time for 512K FFT length: 490.236 ms.
Best time for 640K FFT length: 648.078 ms.
Best time for 768K FFT length: 770.683 ms.
Best time for 896K FFT length: 930.605 ms.
Best time for 1024K FFT length: 1030.509 ms.
Best time for 1280K FFT length: 1360.306 ms.
Best time for 1536K FFT length: 1668.055 ms.
Best time for 1792K FFT length: 2050.080 ms.
Best time for 2048K FFT length: 2305.938 ms.

Sure it is... different, but hey

it doesn't need a heat sink. VIA has a different view on processors.

Prime95 is the only program yet i benched with that totally shut out the processor. Prime95's optimizations obviously don't go well with this processor

. With every thing else i tested with so far, it actually performs like a 600mhz celeron.

Dresdenboy · 2003-12-08, 07:35

Anandtech should have included VIA CPUs in their value CPU roundup. And BTW Intel should think over their Celeron pricing.

Does someone have a Via Nehemia available for testing? I think Prime95 will run much better on it than on Samuel and other predecessors. The FPU has been overhauled and offered about twice the speed (AFAIR).

xtreme2k · 2003-12-08, 09:21

Current generation of Celeron has been crippled way too much.

Cache too small, FSB too slow...

QuintLeo · 2003-12-08, 11:34

For comparison, my K6-400 iterates at 1792K at just over 3000 ms. Or a hair better per Mhz than the C3 800.

The K6 was well known for POOR FP performance in it's day - it ran the FPU at half CPU clock speed being the main reason why.

The Nemiah will have to do a lot more than 2x the performance to even match the P-III based Celerons on FP per Mhz (my BP6 dual-Celeron 600s run 1000-1250 ms, depending on what the other CPU is doing), much less anything current.

Dresdenboy · 2003-12-08, 11:54

Quote:

Originally posted by QuintLeo
The K6 was well known for POOR FP performance in it's day - it ran the FPU at half CPU clock speed being the main reason why.

The Nemiah will have to do a lot more than 2x the performance to even match the P-III based Celerons on FP per Mhz (my BP6 dual-Celeron 600s run 1000-1250 ms, depending on what the other CPU is doing), much less anything current.

AFAIK the K6 didn't have a FPU at half CPU clock speed, but it was not pipelined. The latency was smaller than on a P5/P6 but without pipelining throughput=latency, thus higher than on a pipelined FPU. BTW the 3DNow! units were pipelined with a throughput of up to 2 FP ops/cycle. The K6 Optimization manual didn't give numbers (

I have one at home which has them) but http://www.sysopt.com/k6-fpu.html says: On the AMD K6, it takes the FPU 2 cycles to complete the important instructions - FADD, FSUB, FMUL - the Pentiums, despite the higher latency of 3 - can effectively do them in one cycle if the code is well optimized.
And I think the often used FXCH was not free on K6.

The Cyrix and Centaur CPUs and most successors had a half speed partially pipelined FPU - which has been turned into a full speed fully pipelined FPU with Nehemiah.

Quacky · 2003-12-08, 16:23

Ive noticed on a fresh boot of winXp prime95 will be slighly slower...after loading up a game for a few seconds and then exiting it seems to clear out whatever was holding it up. It then drops back down to normal timings. Shrug

Xyzzy · 2003-12-08, 18:40

http://www.sandpile.org/impl/k6.htm

E_tron · 2003-12-09, 18:46

Quote:

Originally posted by E_tron
Here are the Results from a VIA C3 "E" series processor.

VIA Samuel 2
CPU speed: 799.96 MHz
CPU features: RDTSC, MMX
L1 cache size: 64 KB
L2 cache size: 64 KB
L1 cache line size: 32 bytes
L2 cache line size: 32 bytes
TLBS: 128
Prime95 version 23.7, RdtscTiming=1
Best time for 384K FFT length: 369.462 ms.
Best time for 448K FFT length: 446.807 ms.
Best time for 512K FFT length: 490.236 ms.
Best time for 640K FFT length: 648.078 ms.
Best time for 768K FFT length: 770.683 ms.
Best time for 896K FFT length: 930.605 ms.
Best time for 1024K FFT length: 1030.509 ms.
Best time for 1280K FFT length: 1360.306 ms.
Best time for 1536K FFT length: 1668.055 ms.
Best time for 1792K FFT length: 2050.080 ms.
Best time for 2048K FFT length: 2305.938 ms.

Sure it is... different, but hey it doesn't need a heat sink. VIA has a different view on processors.

Prime95 is the only program yet i benched with that totally shut out the processor. Prime95's optimizations obviously don't go well with this processor . With every thing else i tested with so far, it actually performs like a 600mhz celeron.

Ok, this machine is going to factor

.

GP2 · 2003-12-09, 20:56

Quote:

Originally posted by Dresdenboy
Does someone have a Via Nehemia available for testing? I think Prime95 will run much better on it than on Samuel and other predecessors. The FPU has been overhauled and offered about twice the speed (AFAIR).

There's a review of the Nehemiah CPU and motherboard at http://www.mini-itx.com/. It says it has a full-speed FPU.

I've occasionally looked at the stuff at mini-itx.com and wondered if those things could be used as farm building blocks. But the floating point performance was always unsuitable. Maybe the Nehemiah is different.

The new Nano-ITX standard will apparently let you use a power daughterboard that can take 12V DC input in addition to the standard ATX power connector. No more power supply...

geoff · 2003-12-10, 23:35

This system has a Gigabyte GA-8VD667K mainboard (default BIOS settings but with onboard graphics disabled), 256Mb Kingmax DDR333 CL2.5 memory (at 266MHz), Linux kernel 2.4.22.

The benchmark times fluctuate quite a bit, the following are the best results of 10 runs. The 640K result is accurate (I am getting consistent 0.041 sec/iteration times on a doublecheck in the 10.6M range), but I haven't checked the others yet.

Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
CPU speed: 2423.27 MHz
CPU features: RDTSC, CMOV, PREFETCH, MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 cache size: 8 KB
L2 cache size: 128 KB
L1 cache line size: 64 bytes
L2 cache line size: 128 bytes
TLBS: 64
Prime95 version 23.5, RdtscTiming=1
Best time for 384K FFT length: 22.674 ms.
Best time for 448K FFT length: 25.871 ms.
Best time for 512K FFT length: 39.819 ms.
Best time for 640K FFT length: 40.419 ms.
Best time for 768K FFT length: 50.382 ms.
Best time for 896K FFT length: 58.563 ms.
Best time for 1024K FFT length: 64.733 ms.
Best time for 1280K FFT length: 96.191 ms.
Best time for 1536K FFT length: 119.185 ms.
Best time for 1792K FFT length: 155.347 ms.
Best time for 2048K FFT length: 187.486 ms.

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2003-12-08, 03:07	#79
E_tron Sep 2002 Austin, TX 3·11·17 Posts	Here are the Results from a VIA C3 "E" series processor. VIA Samuel 2 CPU speed: 799.96 MHz CPU features: RDTSC, MMX L1 cache size: 64 KB L2 cache size: 64 KB L1 cache line size: 32 bytes L2 cache line size: 32 bytes TLBS: 128 Prime95 version 23.7, RdtscTiming=1 Best time for 384K FFT length: 369.462 ms. Best time for 448K FFT length: 446.807 ms. Best time for 512K FFT length: 490.236 ms. Best time for 640K FFT length: 648.078 ms. Best time for 768K FFT length: 770.683 ms. Best time for 896K FFT length: 930.605 ms. Best time for 1024K FFT length: 1030.509 ms. Best time for 1280K FFT length: 1360.306 ms. Best time for 1536K FFT length: 1668.055 ms. Best time for 1792K FFT length: 2050.080 ms. Best time for 2048K FFT length: 2305.938 ms. Sure it is... different, but hey it doesn't need a heat sink. VIA has a different view on processors. Prime95 is the only program yet i benched with that totally shut out the processor. Prime95's optimizations obviously don't go well with this processor . With every thing else i tested with so far, it actually performs like a 600mhz celeron.

2003-12-08, 07:35	#80
Dresdenboy Apr 2003 Berlin, Germany 19² Posts	Anandtech should have included VIA CPUs in their value CPU roundup. And BTW Intel should think over their Celeron pricing. Does someone have a Via Nehemia available for testing? I think Prime95 will run much better on it than on Samuel and other predecessors. The FPU has been overhauled and offered about twice the speed (AFAIR).

2003-12-08, 09:21	#81
xtreme2k Aug 2002 2×3×29 Posts	Current generation of Celeron has been crippled way too much. Cache too small, FSB too slow...

2003-12-08, 11:34	#82
QuintLeo Oct 2002 Lost in the hills of Iowa 2⁶·7 Posts	For comparison, my K6-400 iterates at 1792K at just over 3000 ms. Or a hair better per Mhz than the C3 800. The K6 was well known for POOR FP performance in it's day - it ran the FPU at half CPU clock speed being the main reason why. The Nemiah will have to do a lot more than 2x the performance to even match the P-III based Celerons on FP per Mhz (my BP6 dual-Celeron 600s run 1000-1250 ms, depending on what the other CPU is doing), much less anything current.

2003-12-08, 16:23	#84
Quacky Sep 2002 12₈ Posts	Ive noticed on a fresh boot of winXp prime95 will be slighly slower...after loading up a game for a few seconds and then exiting it seems to clear out whatever was holding it up. It then drops back down to normal timings. Shrug

2003-12-08, 18:40	#85
Xyzzy Aug 2002 2·3²·13·37 Posts	http://www.sandpile.org/impl/k6.htm

2003-12-10, 23:35	#88
geoff Mar 2003 New Zealand 10010000101₂ Posts	This system has a Gigabyte GA-8VD667K mainboard (default BIOS settings but with onboard graphics disabled), 256Mb Kingmax DDR333 CL2.5 memory (at 266MHz), Linux kernel 2.4.22. The benchmark times fluctuate quite a bit, the following are the best results of 10 runs. The 640K result is accurate (I am getting consistent 0.041 sec/iteration times on a doublecheck in the 10.6M range), but I haven't checked the others yet. Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz CPU speed: 2423.27 MHz CPU features: RDTSC, CMOV, PREFETCH, MMX, SSE, SSE2 L1 cache size: 8 KB L2 cache size: 128 KB L1 cache line size: 64 bytes L2 cache line size: 128 bytes TLBS: 64 Prime95 version 23.5, RdtscTiming=1 Best time for 384K FFT length: 22.674 ms. Best time for 448K FFT length: 25.871 ms. Best time for 512K FFT length: 39.819 ms. Best time for 640K FFT length: 40.419 ms. Best time for 768K FFT length: 50.382 ms. Best time for 896K FFT length: 58.563 ms. Best time for 1024K FFT length: 64.733 ms. Best time for 1280K FFT length: 96.191 ms. Best time for 1536K FFT length: 119.185 ms. Best time for 1792K FFT length: 155.347 ms. Best time for 2048K FFT length: 187.486 ms.