Upon looking at the benchmarks and especially those generated by SiSoft Sandra, the Xeon DP packs a memory throughput and overall raw performance that is nothing short from impressive. But as we indicated earlier, Sandra doesn’t really stress the system, its more a measure of raw performance, not a substitute for real world performance. As one thing is clear when looking at the SYSmark 2001 scores, the benchmark is in favor of the Xeon DP configuration:

Internet Cont. Creat. score, Xeon DP: 250
Internet Cont. Creat. score, Pentium III Xeon: 170
Internet Cont. Creat. Performance increase: (250/170 x 100%) = 47%

Office Productivity score, Xeon DP: 161
Office Productivity score, Pentium III Xeon: 132
Office Productivity Performance increase: (161/132 x 100%) = 22%

Overall SYSmark 2001 Performance increase = 34%

SPECviewperf is another story, as mentioned before, it is a professional OpenGL benchmark and does a number of tests that are standardized within the benchmark. Overall the SPECviewperf was clearly in favor of the Pentium III Xeon configuration.

SPECviewperf Awadvs-04 score, Xeon DP: 41.92
SPECviewperf Awadvs-04 score, Pentium III Xeon: 59.90
SPECviewperf Awadvs-04 Performance increase: (41.92/59.90 x 100%) = -30%

SPECviewperf DRV-07 score, Xeon DP: 11.79
SPECviewperf DRV-07 score, Pentium III Xeon: 12.13
SPECviewperf DRV-07 Performance increase: (11.79/12.13 x 100%) = -2.8%

SPECviewperf DX-06 score, Xeon DP: 14.64
SPECviewperf DX-06 score, Pentium III Xeon: 16.82
SPECviewperf DX-06 Performance increase: (14.64/16.82 x 100%) = -13%

SPECviewperf Light-04 score, Xeon DP: 4.29
SPECviewperf Light-04 score, Pentium III Xeon: 5.40
SPECviewperf Light-04 Performance increase: (4.29/5.40 x 100%) = -21%

SPECviewperf MedMCAD-01 score, Xeon DP: 19.94
SPECviewperf MedMCAD-01 score, Pentium III Xeon: 18.10
SPECviewperf MedMCAD-01 Performance increase: (19.94/18.10 x 100%) = 10%

SPECviewperf ProCDRS-03 score, Xeon DP: 16.17
SPECviewperf ProCDRS-03 score, Pentium III Xeon: 13.35
SPECviewperf ProCDRS-03 Performance increase: (16.17/13.35 x 100%) = 21%

Overall SPECviewperf Performance increase = -6.0%

3DMark 2001 scores are equally conclusive, although the GeForce2 Ultra was often really being pushed to the limit and framerate really dropped to a crawl, the Xeon DP platform still managed to best the Pentium III Xeon’s score.

Overall 3DMark 2001 Performance increase: (3440/3025 x 100%) = 13.7%

Unfortunately we were unable to complete even a single run of Video2000 with the Pentium III Xeon platform, the system just kept locking up, whatever solution we tried, none of them worked unfortunately.