CPU Tests
A little media encoding performance first, using MP3s, just to humble the Athlon 64 platforms a little. The P4 is king here, and we're entirely CPU/SIMD unit limited on all CPUs. L2 performance doesn't help one iota, it's all streamed from main memory with lots of iterative accesses across memory banks.
You can make up your own interesting commentary for that, you don't need me to feed you something.
KribiBench is a new test for me, Tarinder having used it for a little while previous. It's an interesting, easy to run, test and tests raw CPU performance. P4 is again king, it seems to be awfully biased towards a fast SIMD implementation, like the LAME encoding test.
It's nice to see performance parity, it means things are working properly. But sadly precious little else worth talking about. Raw clock speed helps here, the P4 has enough of an excess to keep its nose in front.
Realstorm now. CPU bound, it's more receptive to L2 performance and memory access performance than the first two benchmarks we use here, so we test a different facet of CPU performance.
The Albatron's slightly higher driven clock speed, with its knock on effect on memory performance, helps it get the win. While we'd like to see complete clock parity on one hand, it's nice to see board makers doing that tiny bit extra on the other.