Content Creation & General Usage Performance

SYSMark has become a solid measurement of overall system performance since its induction into our benchmarking suite. Although the Internet Content Creation suite caters to more of a niche market, the Office Productivity tests are a perfect measurement of overall system performance in the applications all of us use on a daily basis.

The applications benchmarked include:

· Internet Content Generation: Adobe Photoshop® 6.01, Adobe Premiere® 6.0, Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7.1, Macromedia Dreamweaver 4, and Macromedia Flash 5

· Office Productivity: Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft Access 2002, Netscape Communicator® 6.0, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred v.5, WinZip 8.0, and McAfee VirusScan 5.13.

For more information on the methodology and exactly what SYSMark does to generate these performance scores check out BAPCo's SYSMark 2002 Whitepaper.

Content Creation Performance
Internet Content Creation SYSMark 2002
SiS 648 Reference Board (DDR400)

Soltek 85ERV (PX400)

SiS 648 Reference (DDR333)

Shuttle AS45GTR (SiS 648)

VPSD P4PB 400 (P4X400)

299

298

297

294

292

|
0
|
60
|
120
|
179
|
239
|
299
|
359

 

General Usage Performance
Office Productivity SYSMark 2002
SiS 648 Reference Board (DDR400)

Soltek 85ERV (PX400)

SiS 648 Reference (DDR333)

Shuttle AS45GTR (SiS 648)

VPSD P4PB 400 (P4X400)

173

171

170

168

168

|
0
|
35
|
69
|
104
|
138
|
173
|
208

As you can expect, there's little performance difference between boards based on the same chipset. What ends up being somewhat surprising is the close performance between the SiS 648 and the P4X400.

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