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AMD Processor Performance Evaluation Guide
AMD’s Benchmarking Methodology
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AMD’s Benchmarking Methodology
AMD assembled a suite of industry standard benchmarks and applications that we
believe reflects typical end user applications. Specifically, AMD has identified three
usage models which we believe best exemplify the commercial and consumer end-
user PC experience:
Office Productivity
Digital Media
From this list, AMD chose the following benchmarks and applications to represent
these end-user experiences. AMD recommends the use of the following benchmarks
below for proper, balanced, real-world performance analysis.
Gaming
Office Productivity
AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Athlon 64 FX processors with HyperTransport technology
run multiple tasks very efficiently. Work productivity may increase because you can
perform more tasks and wait less for an application to deliver a response. The
following applications simulate a workload likely to be seen in an office workplace
environment.
Business Winstone
2001
Microsoft Office 2000 (Access, Excel,
FrontPage, PowerPoint, Word)
Microsoft Project 98
Lotus Notes R5
NicoMak WinZip
Norton AntiVirus
Netscape Communicator
Business Winstone 2002
Microsoft Office 2002 (Access, Excel,
FrontPage, PowerPoint, Word)
Microsoft Project 2000
SYSmark 2001, Office Productivity
Microsoft Office 2000 (Access, Excel,
Outlook, PowerPoint, Word)
Netscape Communicator 6.0
Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred
v.5
WinZip 8.0
McAfee VirusScan 5.13
Lotus Notes
WinZip 8.0
Norton AntiVirus
Netscape Communicator
Digital Media
AMD64 processor-based systems take advantage of the newly-designed system
features and deliver outstanding performance for digital creation and playback.
Content Creation Winstone
2002
Adobe Photoshop 6.01, Adobe Premiere 6.0
Macromedia Director 8.5, Macromedia
Dreamweaver UltraDev 4
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder
7.01.00.3055
Netscape Navigator 6/6.01, Sonic Foundry
Sound Forge 5.0c
Content Creation Winstone 2003
Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Adobe Premiere
6.0,
Macromedia Director 8.5.1, Macromedia
Dreamweaver UltraDev 4
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder
7.01.00.3055, Netscape Navigator
6.2.3,
Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 6.0,
LightWave 3D 7.5