What's up with SANDRA 2004?

[maluckey]

What's up with the new SANDRA? There is no way that the CPU scores I'm getting could be representative. According to SANDRA, I' beating all the Bartons, at almost equivalent clockspeed:

Test Status
NUMA Support : No
SMP Test : No
Total Test Threads : 1
SMT Test : No
Dynamic MP/MT Load Balance : No
Processor Affinity : No
Number of Runs : 64000 / 640

Processor
Model : AMD Athlon(tm) XP
Speed : 2.27GHz
Model Number : 2793 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR3287 (estimated)
Type : Standard
L2 On-board Cache : 256kB ECC Synchronous Write-Back (16-way, 64 byte line size)


Look this up on the SANDA CPU tables v. the Barton, and you'll see what I mean. I thought that the 512 k L2 cache helped the CPU to be faster, mhz v. mhz. When I raise the clock speed it is only beaten by the Pentium 4C 3.0 Ghz, and 3.2 Ghz.

Even if the motherboard is waaaaay OC'ed, it shouldn't make much, if any difference....right?

 

[Ticktanium2038]

Sandra skews benchmarks. Allways has allways will in favor of the largest donator.

Right now its optimizing the code with SSE3 code so the Prescott will look good. If you run prescott at the same speed with existing benchmark programs the Prescott is slower than P4.

You can draw your own conclusion on how usefull benchmark programs like this are.

 

[joe2004]

XP2100 @2.27GHz beats Bartons. What is surprising about that?

 

[maluckey]

I ws just under the impression that the 512k L2 cache had some impact on the CPU performance.

 

[joe2004]

Actually 512 MB in Barton means little. The advantage is easily squashed with 40-50 MHz which is less than what you got. I would go for XP 1700 DLT3C over Barton 2500 any time.

 

[xenos500]

Originally posted by: maluckey
I ws just under the impression that the 512k L2 cache had some impact on the CPU performance.

nope, not in sisoft.... my celeron p4 scores the same as my P4 at the same clock speed....no difference.

but when i bench the systems in photoshop and other REAL tasks.......the P4 is done way way before the celeron...and my brothers AMD, but thats a different story.

 

[mngisdood]

I've been nothing but impressed with the new Sandra..

 

[joe2004]

I don't know about that but I know if you run XP 2100 @2.3 GHz you'd beat Barton 3200+ pretty much across the board in any benchmark.