Business and Content Creation Winstone are two benchmarks that carry out typical application-based tasks like a converting video files or delivering a PowerPoint presentation. The following applications are used in each test:
Content Creation Winstone 2004
Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1
Adobe Premiere 6.50
Macromedia Director MX 9.0
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.1
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0
Internet Explorer
Newtek Lightwave 7.5b
Steinberg Wavelab 4.0f
Business Winstone 2004
Microsoft Office XP applications (Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint and Word)
Microsoft Project 2002
MS Outlook
WinZip 8.1
Norton AntiVirus 2003
Internet Explorer
The benchmark offers two options. The first is a standard a test without multitasking: several applications are held in memory, but only the foreground application is active.
This corresponds, for example, to the work routine of a Web designer, who first creates graphic elements in Photoshop and then uses Dreamweaver to integrate this into the Web site.
The two Athlon 64 processors keep their Intel counterparts at bay in these tests, with a performance advantage of between 10 and 16 per cent. Things look completely different in the multitasking tests, which are described on the next page.
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Unreal Tournament 2003 3D Studio Max 6 Video Studio 8 |
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