AMD's 760MPX Chipset - Multiprocessor for the Masses

Content Creation Performance

Content Creation users also demand the high performance that is almost always targeted at these higher price workstations. There is a benefit to having multiple CPUs and again it is the ability to perform many tasks at once with each of them running as fast as possible. The Content Creation user is one who spends a lot of time doing just that, creating content. Whether that content is in the form of videos that must be encoded, music that must be sampled, or images that must be edited, the creation process takes time and it takes clock cycles.

We've proved in the past that going to dual CPUs can increase overall content creation performance by anywhere from 20 - 50% which is much more than even a couple of CPU speed grades will give you.

To measure Content Creation performance we used the Internet Content Creation tests of SYSMark 2001 as well as the new Content Creation Winstone 2002 from Ziff Davis Media.

Internet Content Creation Performance Internet Content Creation SYSMark 2001 AMD Athlon MP 1900+ (1.6GHz) Intel Xeon 1.7GHz AMD Athlon MP 1.2GHz 258 250 210 | 0 | 52 | 103 | 155 | 206 | 258 | 310

Here there is only a 3.2% difference between the dual Athlon MP 1900+ and the dual Xeon 1.7GHz solution. If SSE were properly enabled in Windows Media Encoder on the Athlon platforms then the performance gap would be even greater but unfortunately AMD's SYSMark patch would not work under our test Windows 2000 OS.

Content Creation Performance Content Creation Winstone 2002 AMD Athlon MP 1900+ (1.6GHz) AMD Athlon MP 1.2GHz Intel Xeon 1.7GHz 36.6 31.5 29.6 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 29 | 37 | 44

Content Creation Winstone 2002 provides a picture we're much more used to seeing, with the Athlon MP 1900+ CPUs coming out 24% faster than the dual Xeons. The Xeons are much more competitive with the dual Athlon MPs running at 1.2GHz which are only able to outpace Intel's offering by 6%.