Code Creatures is a fun benchmark to show off eye candy.  I ran this test through 3 stages at different resolutions 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200. After running these tests I am surprised again to see no performance improvement whatsoever.

Sandra is a program that has been used by the hardware community for years, and while it is still just a static benchmark it has earned a lot of respect, but it still should not be used by itself to tell real time performance. I ran two Sandra tests for this review. The first test will be the CPU arithmetic test and the second will be the multimedia test.  In the arithmetic test you can see a slight improvement in the ALU but exactly the same score in the FPU. It is no surprise that the ALU test would score slightly higher being that the ALU would be taking advantage of the increase in cache, however. the multimedia tests show no gain in performance, in fact the Barton lost a few points in the floating point test.

Now that we are finished with the static tests let's move on to some real time tests.