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The Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor Advanced Technology for the Internet and Beyond
Software Application Performance
Pentium 4 Processor Software Application Performance The Intel Pentium 4 processor is designed to deliver end-user appreciable performance gains for today's and tomorrow's Visual Internet, including Internet audio and video streaming, high-performance 3D graphics, digital photography and digital video, speech recognition, multimedia, and MP3 encoding. Saving time when encoding to MP3 music files, higher frame rates for 3D games, and more quickly creating, editing, and sharing professional-quality video are just a few areas where the Pentium 4 processor can deliver enduser appreciable benefits.
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With innovative features such as Hyper Pipelined Technology, 400 MHz System Bus, Execution Trace Cache, and Rapid Execution Engine the Pentium 4 processor delivers awesome performance for today's Visual Internet but is also designed for where the Internet is going.
January 2001 Order Number: 249242-003
This performance data is the result of a performance measurement utility created by Intel. The utility runs only portions of the applications it tests. The tested portions of the applications were chosen to highlight the benefits of the Intel® NetBurst™ micro-architecture of the Pentium® 4 Processor. The performance of these functions may not be representative of that of other functions of the applications, and may not be representative of your use of the applications. ** In addition, final versions of some applications were not available at the time of testing, so pre-release versions were tested. The released versions of these applications may be different from the versions actually tested. For all of these reasons, the actual performance you experience may vary. For more information on performance tests, see www.intel.com/procs/perf/limits.htm. Copyright © 2001 Intel Corporation. * Third-party brands and names are the property of their respective owners.
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MP3 Encoding Sharing music is one of many popular uses of the Internet today. The MP3 file format is one of the more commonly used file formats used to share music since it enables high-fidelity sound with a relatively small file size. One of the more compute intensive steps in creating an MP3 file involves an encoding process going from a .wav file format to a .mp3 file format and there are software applications available today that help make this process easy. Canon’s eJay* MP3 Plus 1.3 software is used on a full-length music CD to measure MP3 encoding performance on a Pentium® III processor running at 800EB MHz and 1B GHz as compared to a Pentium 4 processor running at 1.30 GHz, 1.40 GHz, and 1.50 GHz. The results demonstrate the type of end-user appreciable benefits that a PC user can realize when using a Pentium 4 processor. Here a PC user that uses a Pentium 4 processor system can save up to 2 minutes of encoding time for a full-length music CD as compared to a Pentium III processor system.
See page 2 for important information. See pages 10-11 for testing configuration and details.
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Video Editing Why simply share a digital photo over the Internet with friends and family when it is far more exciting and easy to share a 30-second digital video over the Internet? With prices for digital video cameras continuing to decrease in price and as more PC OEM manufacturers include support for video in their PCs, digital video content creation is becoming available to all PC users. Professionals in the film and advertising industry have been using PCs to create and edit video for years. ULead* VideoStudio* 4.0 is a video editing software application that can take video clips and other media, including still images, titles, audio clips, and assemble them into a final movie. Here a Pentium® III processor system at 800EB MHz and 1B GHz and a Pentium 4 processor system at 1.30 GHz, 1.40 GHz, and 1.50 GHz are used to assemble different video clips through the process of scene transitions and special effects. Here we see how much time a PC user who uses a Pentium 4 processor system for video editing can save when working with videos of a relatively small size. Using videos that are larger in size will lead to a larger savings in time. The Pentium 4 processor can help PC users more quickly create, edit, and share professionalquality video as compared to a Pentium III processor system.
See page 2 for important information. See pages 10-11 for testing configuration and details.
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3D Gaming
Gamers tend to be very discerning when it comes to high-quality, high-performance 3D graphics and they often demand the best in terms of technology. One of the various metrics used to evaluate 3D performance is frames per second. A higher frames per second indicates smoother game play. The increasing compute-intensive demands of 3D games makes it critical to continue to offer great gains for this type of software. Quake* III Arena is one of the hottest online games on the Internet today and includes two different tests that gamers use to evaluate 3D gaming performance—Demo 1 and Demo 2. Both tests are used to measure 3D gaming performance on a Pentium® III processor running at 800EB MHz and 1B GHz and a Pentium 4 processor running at 1.30 GHz, 1.40 GHz, and 1.50 GHz. The significant increase in frames per second for the Pentium 4 processor demonstrates the type of end-user appreciable benefits that 3D gamers crave. The Pentium 4 processor system enables a 72.4 frames per second increase for Demo 1 and enables a 76.0 frames per second increase for Demo 2 as compared to a Pentium III processor system.
See page 2 for important information. See pages 10-11 for testing configuration and details.
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Video Encoding Often before digital video is shared over the Internet it is either encoded into a file format that supports compression of the digital video into a smaller file size, or it is encoded into one of the popular video streaming formats commonly found on the Internet. Microsoft’s* Windows Media* Encoder 7.0 encodes audio and video content into a Windows Media Format (WMV) stream. The content can be from a live source or an existing .avi, .wav, or .mp3 file. The output is a stream of information that can be heard or viewed with Microsoft Windows Media Player, or streamed off of a server for multicasting, unicasting, or storage. Here, an .avi file format video clip is converted to .mwv file format on a Pentium® III processor running at 800EB MHz and 1B GHz and a Pentium 4 processor running at 1.30 GHz, 1.40 GHz, and 1.50 GHz. Here we see how much time a PC user who uses a Pentium 4 processor system for video encoding can save when working with videos of a relatively small size. Using videos that are larger in size will lead to a larger savings in time. A PC user that uses a Pentium 4 processor system can experience greater time savings in encoding video as compared to a Pentium III processor system.
See page 2 for important information. See pages 10-11 for testing configuration and details.
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Speech Recognition Speech recognition is becoming more popular every day, and professionals such as lawyers, doctors, and professors are already using speech recognition software for speech-totext translation that in turn helps to increase their personal productivity. With increasing processor performance, speech recognition software is able to incorporate more complex speech recognition engines that in turn help enable faster voice training as well as improved speech-to-text translation. Dragon* Naturally Speaking* Preferred 4.0 is a continuous speech recognition application that converts speech to text. Pre-recorded human speech in a .wav file format is converted to text on a Pentium® III processor running at 800EB MHz and 1B GHz and a Pentium 4 processor running at 1.30 GHz, 1.40 GHz, and 1.50 GHz. Here we see how much time can be saved by a PC user that uses a Pentium 4 processor system for speech-to-text translation. Using pre-recorded speech that is longer in duration will lead to a larger savings in time. A PC user can save more time by using a Pentium 4 processor to convert human speech to text as compared to a Pentium III processor.
See page 2 for important information. See pages 10-11 for testing configuration and details.
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Compute Intensive Many of today's compute-intensive software applications require maximum performance from your microprocessor, including: data compression, natural language processing, cost analysis, professional 3D graphics, neural network simulations, etc. A PC user that is using compute-intensive software can benefit from the performance gains enabled by the Pentium® 4 processor. SPEC CPU*2000 is a software benchmark product produced by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC), a non-profit group of computer vendors, system integrators, universities, research organizations, publishers, and consultants throughout the world. It was designed to provide comparisons of performance for compute-intensive workloads on different computer systems. The software benchmark measures the performance of PC system's microprocessor, chipset, memory architecture, and software compiler technology. SPEC benchmarks are developed from commercially-available software applications. As measured by SPEC CPU2000, the Pentium 4 processor system delivers up to 95% greater performance than a Pentium III processor system on compute-intensive software.
See page 10 for testing configurations.
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Internet
In its infancy the Internet was primarily comprised of HTML text-based web pages. Today, PC users can see how dramatically the Internet has changed over the last several years as it transitioned from being comprised of HTML text-based pages to new technologies such as Java, audio and video streaming, Flash animation, 3D graphics, etc. Intel has termed this as the Visual Internet. These newer, visual Internet technologies rely more heavily on microprocessors and a PC user can improve his or her Internet experience through the use of a Pentium® 4 processor system. WebMark*2001 is an Internet benchmark designed and developed by Business Applications Performance Corporation (BAPCo) and MadOnion.com*. In addition to an Overall Score, WebMark2001 also measures the performance of the PC client on various Internet technologies such as Java (operations per second), XML (operations per second), and 3D Visualization (frames per second). Here the Pentium 4 processor system demonstrates that it can significantly improve a PC user's overall Internet experience. The Pentium 4 processor system enables up to a 51% performance increase as compared to a Pentium III processor system.
See page 10 for testing configurations. Measurement units: Java (operations per second), XML (operations per second), 3D (frames per second).
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Test Configurations Pentium® 4 Processor 1.30, 1.40, 1.50 GHz Intel® Desktop Board D850GB GB85010A.86A.0040.P03 128 MB PC800 RDRAM (except 256 MB for SPECint*2000 and SPECfp*2000) (Samsung KMMR16R88AC1-RKB 800-45) Operating System Windows* Millennium* (build 3000.2) w/ DirectX* 7.0b (except Windows* 2000 (build 2195) for SPECint*2000, SPECfp*2000, and WebMark*2001) Hard Disk IBM* 30GB ATA-100 DTLA-307030 Hard Disk Driver Intel Ultra ATA Storage Driver Version 6.02 INF 2.50 Graphics Card Creative* 3D Blaster* Annihilator 2 w/ nVidia* GeForce*2 GTS Graphics Memory 32MB DDRRAM Graphics Driver nVidia* Detonator 3 v6.18 Graphics Settings 1024x768 resolution (except 640x480 for Quake* III Arena), 16-bit color CD ROM Drive Toshiba* 32X XM-6302B IDE Sound Card Creative Labs SoundBlaster* Live Network Card Intel Pro/100+ Management PCI LAN card SPEC CPU2000 Compiler Intel C/C++* and FORTRAN Compiler Plug-in 5.0 Microsoft Visual C/C++ 6.0 (for libraries) Processor Motherboard Motherboard BIOS Memory Size
Pentium® III Processor 800EB MHz, 1B GHz Intel® Desktop Board VC820 VC82010A.86A.0035.P15 128 MB PC800 RDRAM (except 256 MB for SPECint*2000 and SPECfp*2000) (Samsung KMMR16R88AC1-RKB 800-45) Operating System Windows* Millennium* (build 3000.2) w/ DirectX* 7.0b (except Windows* 2000 (build 2195) for SPECint*2000, SPECfp*2000, and WebMark*2001) Hard Disk IBM* 30GB ATA-100 DTLA-307030 Hard Disk Driver Intel Ultra ATA Storage Driver Version 6.02 INF 2.50 Graphics Card Creative* 3D Blaster* Annihilator 2 w/ nVidia* GeForce*2 GTS Graphics Memory 32MB DDRRAM Graphics Driver nVidia* Detonator 3 v6.18 Graphics Settings 1024x768 resolution (except 640x480 for Quake* III Arena), 16-bit color CD ROM Drive Toshiba* 32X XM-6302B IDE Sound Card Creative Labs SoundBlaster* Live Network Card Intel Pro/100+ Management PCI LAN card SPEC CPU2000 Compiler Intel C/C++* and FORTRAN Compiler Plug-in 5.0 Microsoft Visual C/C++ 6.0 (for libraries) Processor Motherboard Motherboard BIOS Memory Size
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Testing Details Canon* eJay* MP3 Plus 1.3 The time to convert a .wav file to a .mp3 file using Canon* eJay* MP3 Plus 1.3 was measured. The .wav file was created from the full-length music CD "Bernstein Century - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9" available on the Sony Classical label. Settings used were normal CD-GrabSpeed and 128kbit/sec encoding quality.
ULead* VideoStudio* 4.0 The time to open an MPEG-2 NTSC quality video project with four .avi video clips and three transition effects and render the video clips and effects into a final movie is measured. The application uses a beta version of the LIGOS lsxprem DLL v1.3.0.10 which is optimized for the Pentium 4 processor. The transition and resize functions were also Pentium 4 processor optimized.
id* Quake* III Arena The TimeDemo benchmarks (Demo 1 and Demo 2) within Quake III Arena measures the 3D game performance of a system. It runs through a prerecorded demo script of a Quake III Arena session and determines the frames per second rate of the playback. Results are reported as a numeric frames per second (fps) value. Settings used were normal graphics setting, 640x480 screen resolution, and 16-bit color depth.
Microsoft* Windows Media* Encoder 7.0 The time to load the load the application and an .avi file and complete the encoding to a .wmv (Windows Media Format) stream was measured. The input file is a 30-second 320x240 .avi clip from an Intel MMX(tm) technology advertisement. Setting were 720x480 resolution, high bandwidth, MPEG4 V3 video compression, Windows Media V7 Audio compression (44 kHz stereo), 30 fps, 10 sec/iframe, and crispness=50.
Dragon* NaturallySpeaking* Preferred 4.0 The time to load the application and a pre-recorded .wav file (a recorded speech), then convert the .wav file to text was measured. The .wav file was played using Dragon's PlayWave utility, while NaturallySpeaking converted the .wav file to text.
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