Speech recognition
Sphinx is a high-quality speech recognition routine that needs the latest computer hardware to run at speeds close to real-time processing. We use two different versions, built with two different compilers, in an attempt to ensure we're getting the best possible performance.

Sphinx is very sensitive to memory performance, and it shows. Once again, T-bred isn't much faster than Palomino, because it's limited by the front-side bus bottleneck.

ScienceMark
We'll close out our testing with ScienceMark, which is always interesting in a very, very geeky sort of way. ScienceMark runs a series of physics simulations in an attempt to confuse non-geeks. Err, in an attempt to measure scientific computing performance.

AMD's top processor takes the top spot here, as usual. Now for some of the individual test scores...

As we've seen before, the Pentium 4 takes the memory-intensive Primordia test, while the Athlon XP takes the other two.