Processor Types and Specifications - Upgrading and Repairing PCs - page 59

Note
According to Anandtech.com , SYSmark 2007 does not adequately capture the full perform-
ance benefit of more than two processor cores: the applications and workload used in the
benchmark put little stress on more than two processor threads.
For SYSmark 2004 and SYSmark 2004SE comparisons for processors such as the Core
2 family, Pentium D, Pentium 4 and Pentium Extreme Edition, Celeron D, Pentium III,
Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron, and Athlon XP, see Table 3.8 and 3.9 in Chapter 3 of
Upgrading and Repairing PCs, 19 th edition , available in its entirety on the disc packaged
with this topic.
Table 3.8 CPU Process/Wafer Size Transitions from 1971 to 2001
Table 3.9 CPU Process/Wafer Size Transitions from 2002 to 2022