Page 4: Benchmarks
<b>The Benchmarks</b>:
The Purple color bars indicate the L4S5MG overclocked to 2.13Ghz. The Yellow indicates the K7S5A with an Athlon 1 Ghz and the blue bar is the L4S5MG with the normal 1.6Ghz.
<center><img src="http://www.aselabs.com/images/articles/march02/l4s5mg/l4graphs/3dmark.gif"></center>
First up is the ever popular 3DMark 2001SE. As you can see, the L4S5MG handles this very well. I included my K7S5A as a baseline basically, it only has a 1 GHZ Athlon but it can keep up with the 600mhz difference of the P4. Where the P4 shines is the overclock. We have a 900 point jump at 1024x768.
<center><img src="http://www.aselabs.com/images/articles/march02/l4s5mg/l4graphs/pcmark.gif"></center>
PCMark 2002 is MadOnion's new benchmark to measure the performance of the total system. I think it is a bit biased toward the Pentium 4. I thought it was interesting that the HDD stayed the same (It should). I agree with the memory benchmarks because the P4 can utilize the bandwidth much that than the Athlon.
<center><img src="http://www.aselabs.com/images/articles/march02/l4s5mg/l4graphs/glmark.gif"></center>
I don't play anything below 1024x768 so I won't usually include less than that resolution. Above that your graphics cards become the bottleneck. But you can see the difference that the CPU speeds give in this benchmark regardless. The L4S5MG is very fast.
<center><img src="http://www.aselabs.com/images/articles/march02/l4s5mg/l4graphs/glexcess.gif"></center>
Next up we have GLexcess also based on OpenGL. You'll notice that the Athlon is keeping pace with the Pentium 4 until it goes to 2.13ghz. Remember, clock speed isn't always a good measure of performance.
The Purple color bars indicate the L4S5MG overclocked to 2.13Ghz. The Yellow indicates the K7S5A with an Athlon 1 Ghz and the blue bar is the L4S5MG with the normal 1.6Ghz.
<center><img src="http://www.aselabs.com/images/articles/march02/l4s5mg/l4graphs/3dmark.gif"></center>
First up is the ever popular 3DMark 2001SE. As you can see, the L4S5MG handles this very well. I included my K7S5A as a baseline basically, it only has a 1 GHZ Athlon but it can keep up with the 600mhz difference of the P4. Where the P4 shines is the overclock. We have a 900 point jump at 1024x768.
<center><img src="http://www.aselabs.com/images/articles/march02/l4s5mg/l4graphs/pcmark.gif"></center>
PCMark 2002 is MadOnion's new benchmark to measure the performance of the total system. I think it is a bit biased toward the Pentium 4. I thought it was interesting that the HDD stayed the same (It should). I agree with the memory benchmarks because the P4 can utilize the bandwidth much that than the Athlon.
<center><img src="http://www.aselabs.com/images/articles/march02/l4s5mg/l4graphs/glmark.gif"></center>
I don't play anything below 1024x768 so I won't usually include less than that resolution. Above that your graphics cards become the bottleneck. But you can see the difference that the CPU speeds give in this benchmark regardless. The L4S5MG is very fast.
<center><img src="http://www.aselabs.com/images/articles/march02/l4s5mg/l4graphs/glexcess.gif"></center>
Next up we have GLexcess also based on OpenGL. You'll notice that the Athlon is keeping pace with the Pentium 4 until it goes to 2.13ghz. Remember, clock speed isn't always a good measure of performance.