Intel's Pentium 4 3.4GHz Processors Reviewed

EconolineCrush writes "In one of the most gratuitous benchmarking indulgences I've seen, Tech Report has tested Intel's new Northwood and Prescott Pentium 4 3.4GHz processors against sixteen competitors ranging from the relatively old school Athlon XP to the opulent Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, with plenty of Athlon 64 action thrown in for good measure. Performance is tested in a wide range of applications, including gaming, rendering, image processing, media encoding, speech recognition, and scientific number crunching. Even if you're not interested in Intel's latest Pentium 4s, the review nicely shows where 18 of the fastest desktop chips from AMD and Intel stack up against each other."

Comments

Re:The problem with all these new processors is

[beswicks]

That is possibly one of the most bizzare comments to be marked interesting, just because a new form factor comes out, it doesn't mean that the processor companies will dump all the current chips.

True they may have a new package for some of the processors to fit a new slot or modified mb chipset, but that is nothing new, we don't just chuck out all the old work when something new comes along.

c.

That' It. Moores Law is over!!!!!

[The Anointed]

When did the 2.0 GH Pentium come out, around August 2001. And now we're reviewing 3.4 GH Pentiums 2.5 years later? Dead!!! Long Live Moores Law.

When not to take a review site seriously...

[SomeGuyFromCA]

The reference to "enough microarchitectural tweaks to kill a horse" was bad enough, but now this:

We start with memory performance, because these benchmarks are synthetic [...] and not always indicative of real-world performance. They [...], however, [...] present the opportunity to make all sorts of colorful graphs.