TomsHardware.de Prescott review

[Chuck232]

Enjoy. ;)

http://www.tomshardware.de/cpu/20040201/index.html

BTW, hope you read german.:)

EDIT: Changed title

[Chuck232]

Well I "read" through it (looked at the graphs) and it seems like the 2 CPUs are pretty even. The Prescott is faster in some apps, slower in others. For the most part though, they're pretty dead even.

Hope it o/cs well now. ;)

[Chuck232]

All here they all come:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/prescott.html

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/prescott-tests.html

http://hothardware.com/hh_files/CCAM/p4prescott_p4ee34.shtml

EDIT: Reading some more and o/cing seems to be decent. xbit got theirs to 3.6GHz with the standard boxed HSF and Hot got to ~3.7 using aircooling also.

Both sites do show pretty decently high temps though.

[Frankie]

Well, at the moment it sucks big time. Gaming speed lacks behind Northwood in many tests

See it yourself

FiringSquad (http://www.firingsquad.com)

[Jimbob7]

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040201/index.html

English, if anyone wants it hehe :p

[Chuck232]

The benches in gaming are very close to the NW except for Commanche4. The difference is so insignificant that I woudn't say the Prescott is slower in games than the NW.

However, the A64/AFX is defintely still out ahead in gaming.

[Axis]

I am surpriesed I was expecting to see more performance than that.

[Maxvla]

lol. toms.. this outta be good. lol

[OperativeSix]

Prescotts are voltage-locked to below 1.6v according to FUGGER on xtremesystems. This isn't really a bad thing, keep in mind, as above that would fry the chip VERY fast. Adding more voltage seems to do nothing for prescott.

[Maxvla]

just as i thought. these chips are at best on par with northwoods. unless they overclock to 4ghz on stock voltage and stock cooling (which i'm not seeing) they are no better than what we already have.

even tom's couldn't boost the 3.2e from its poor performance.

[Chuck232]

Hey, Tom's wasn't all too bad... maybe the readers have finally got to them. ;)

But in all fairness to Prescott, I didn't expect any more and since my hopes were so low, the results were a slight positive surprise. I mean it about equals the NW and seems to scale much better. The review at Anand is most interesting. Since the cache latency decreases with core clock increases, we should see the larger cache making up for the longer pipeline more as we o/c or just ramp in speed.

For the most part, sites have been getting pretty consistant 3.6GHz+ o/cs on air which is more than you can say for most NWs.

In any rate, I'm not looking for the 478 version. They still run ungodly hot and don't bring much to the table, but hopefully as 775 matures we'll have better steppings/cooling and as the clocks increase we'll see better performance. And maybe some SSE3 optimizations even. ;)

[DaMouse]

Look at anandtech.com's review also :). Btw: would the 2.8E out perform my 2.8C in compiling stuff under Linux? With the extra cache to load stuff into and all, since my sisters more of a gamer I could give her my 2.8C in return for the 2.8E since the Northwoods seem to game better?

-DaMouse