Thanks to Dave Baumann @ Beyond3D for letting me know that their Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz review is out! Here's a snip.
Last November Intel announced their fastest desktop processor to date: the Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz. While we've got familiar with 100MHz-200MHz speed hikes with new Pentium 4 releases, on this occasion Intel decided to introduce something new for the desktop PC in the Form of HyperThreading. How do these 3GHz CPU's perform? What is HyperThreading and what its supposed to do? Does Hyperthreading help or hinder application and games? We try to answer some of the questions in our Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz Review. Interestingly under Comanche 4 we can see that the best performance occurs with HyperThreading enabled. With HyperThreading On, the P4 3.06GHz is in the 25%-28% performance increase range over the P4 2.53GHz, which is a little better than the 21% clock speed increase. In comparison to the P4 2.4GHz the performance is over 50% better - much more than the 27% clock speed advantage.
Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz Review @ Beyond3D
Last November Intel announced their fastest desktop processor to date: the Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz. While we've got familiar with 100MHz-200MHz speed hikes with new Pentium 4 releases, on this occasion Intel decided to introduce something new for the desktop PC in the Form of HyperThreading. How do these 3GHz CPU's perform? What is HyperThreading and what its supposed to do? Does Hyperthreading help or hinder application and games? We try to answer some of the questions in our Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz Review. Interestingly under Comanche 4 we can see that the best performance occurs with HyperThreading enabled. With HyperThreading On, the P4 3.06GHz is in the 25%-28% performance increase range over the P4 2.53GHz, which is a little better than the 21% clock speed increase. In comparison to the P4 2.4GHz the performance is over 50% better - much more than the 27% clock speed advantage.
Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz Review @ Beyond3D
