Choosing From Similar PC Configurations
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Compiling
The first announcement: this is a new compile test. The source code is the same, just as the compiler, but the choice of options and some project improvements allow to use all processor cores. As a result, compile time is much shorter now, and this benchmark has become more dependent on a processor.
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Athlon X2 6000 |
Phenom X3 8450 |
E5300 + G31 |
E5300 + GF7100 |
| Visual Studio |
00:11:33 |
00:14:19 |
00:10:38 |
00:11:02 |
Surprisingly, it didn't help AMD Phenom at all -- this processor is outperformed by the dual-core Pentium DC as well as by the older dual-core processor from AMD -- Athlon X2. In other respects, this situation was to be expected, Intel G31 defeats GeForce 7100 -- the compile test has always been indifferent to large cache and fast memory, so GeForce 7100 with its single-channel memory controller couldn't compete with the Intel chipset.
Professional photo processing
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Athlon X2 6000 |
Phenom X3 8450 |
E5300 + G31 |
E5300 + GF7100 |
| Photoshop |
| Blur |
00:10:30 |
00:09:10 |
00:08:42 |
00:09:30 |
| Color |
00:02:38 |
00:02:02 |
00:01:46 |
00:01:48 |
| Filters |
00:05:44 |
00:07:22 |
00:04:46 |
00:04:48 |
| Light |
00:02:24 |
00:02:52 |
00:02:08 |
00:02:10 |
| Rotate |
00:03:44 |
00:03:48 |
00:03:40 |
00:04:02 |
| Sharp |
00:04:34 |
00:03:56 |
00:03:30 |
00:04:08 |
| Size |
00:01:36 |
00:01:16 |
00:01:02 |
00:01:06 |
| Transform |
00:03:04 |
00:02:56 |
00:02:34 |
00:02:52 |
There are no miracles in this test either, we all know that Adobe Photoshop has been favoring Intel since Pentium 4. Phenom X3 outperforms Athlon X2, because our Adobe Photoshop test can use all cores, and Phenom X3 has more of them.
Scientific applications
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Athlon X2 6000 |
Phenom X3 8450 |
E5300 + G31 |
E5300 + GF7100 |
| Maple |
0.0332 |
0.0232 |
0.0258 |
0.0257 |
| Mathematica |
| Internal |
2.3180 |
2.4780 |
2.8450 |
2.5610 |
| MMA |
1.1392 |
0.9785 |
1.1818 |
1.1360 |
| MATLAB |
| LU |
0.0786 |
0.1038 |
0.0829 |
0.1099 |
| FFT |
0.1026 |
0.1903 |
0.1538 |
0.1959 |
| ODE |
0.2427 |
0.2169 |
0.1754 |
0.1812 |
| Sparse |
1.0132 |
0.5201 |
0.3076 |
0.3355 |
| 2D |
0.3173 |
0.4089 |
0.3254 |
0.3280 |
| 3D |
0.2857 |
0.3211 |
0.1821 |
0.5587 |
Mathematic packages suddenly turned out to be sensitive to memory speed (how else can we explain that G31 is so much faster than GeForce 7100?) And Athlon X2 6000 defeats Phenom X3 8450 not only in MATLAB (as we expected), but also in Maple and in one of Mathematica tests.
Web server
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Athlon X2 6000 |
Phenom X3 8450 |
E5300 + G31 |
E5300 + GF7100 |
| PHP Calculator |
93 |
111 |
100 |
100 |
| PHPSpeed |
| Synthetic PHP |
2469 |
2374 |
3031 |
3033 |
| Synthetic MySQL |
1942 |
2167 |
2634 |
2640 |
| Synthetic Read/Write |
1608 |
1629 |
1974 |
1940 |
| Real World PHP |
2950 |
3508 |
4649 |
4275 |
| Real World PHP and MySQL |
2121 |
2064 |
2686 |
2723 |
| Server |
1430 |
1578 |
1960 |
1932 |
The web server test unexpectedly turns out less sensitive to the number of channels in a memory controller, even in its multi-threaded part (PHP Calculator). Other results are not surprising.
Total professional score
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Athlon X2 6000 |
Phenom X3 8450 |
E5300 + G31 |
E5300 + GF7100 |
| USD per point |
1.13 |
1.1 |
- |
0.95 |
Intel Pentium DC E5300 + Intel G31 gets no professional score and no USD-per-point value because it failed to pass all tests. So it was not possible to calculate these parameters. However, the Intel platform in combination with NVIDIA GeForce 7100 still wins the professional run with an imposing advantage. It's all clear why: AMD platform shows terrible results in CAD/CAM tests because of low OpenGL performance of AMD 740G (we still insist that the problem is in the drivers, not in hardware), plus mediocre results in Adobe Photoshop (even the triple-core Phenom cannot compete with the dual-core Pentium!) But let's not forget that the professional group of tests in this article is not very important, as we test home systems.
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