Test i7-3770 3.4Ghz vs Pentium II – Sisoft Sandra 99
May 27, 2019
If you’ve been to the site before, you may have noticed that there are numerous articles about Windows 98 and Windows 3.x running on modern hardware, including Windows 3.1 on Ryzen 9. Obviously, we’re referring to a live install rather than a machine install virtual. (Funny story: I was at an ITP station recently, and the computer was running Windows 98, because the brake test software was not compatible with XP or newer. )

So how do processors from 1998 behave where the top of the range is a Pentium II 450 vs an i7-3770 Ivy Bridge – model released in 2012?
2012 = 2015/2016
First, a few words about the i7-3770 processor in the tests. Even though it was launched in 2012, the Ivy Bridge architecture on 22nm, does not differ much in performance compared to later generations. We’re talking about the days when Intel did whatever it wanted. Being the undisputed leader, he allowed himself small leaps in performance from one generation to another. This situation has meant that, in the home desktop market, an i7-6700 at 3.4 Ghz is only 2% more than an i7-3770 released 3 and a half years ago.

i7-3770 vs 1998 champion Pentium II @450Mhz
How about running a benchmark in Windows 98 to see how an i7-3770 compares with the top processors from the year of grace 1998. If you ask why I didn’t make a print screen and preferred to photograph the screen, the images are extracted from a raw magic lantern video recording.

Let’s not forget that Windows 98 only works in single-core mode, and that in the tests below the Ryzen 3900x goes core-to-core with the monsters of the time, while the other 11 cores sit and relax.
So, in the MIPS test – which comes from millions of instructions per second
– we find that the i7-3770 @ 3.4Ghz has a score of 15178 vs the next ranked Pentium II @ 450Mhz with only 1220 MIPS. Overall, we have a score of 12.5X for the i7.

In the multimedia test, the score narrows to a more modest 7x. We have to take into account that our i7 treated at the level of 1998, when MMX instructions were in vogue.

In the test, the 4 memory modules 4×4 in dual channel @ 1600 Mhz is measured by Sisoft Sandra close to the theoretical speed of 12,800MB/s – more precisely at 11794 MB/s. This gives us confidence that Sisoft Sandra was really doing real benchmarks.

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