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Benchmark
Results :::...
CliBench
SMP MK III:::...
CliBench
is a suite of synthetic benchmarks
It
includes the following benchmarks. They are partially self
developed or rewritten industry standard benchmarks.
- Dhrystones:
An industry standard benchmark which is an indicator for
integer performance
- Whetstones
An industry standard benchmark which is an indicator for
floating point performance
- Eight
queens problem: A famous algorithm that depends on the
latency time of the CPU. (The longer the pipeline, the
bigger the latency time)
- Matrix
operations: By calculating matrices you'll get a sign
for the CPUs level 1 performance
- Number
Crunching: Raw integer performance
- Floating
point: Raw floating point performance
First
I ran the benchmark with just a single thread which returned
the following results:
Then
I ran it again with two threads which when compred directly
to the scores from the 4000+ demonstrates how double the
performance is actually a reality with the X2. On average
we see an improvement of 202% overall.
Doom
III :::...
There's
been much talk about Doom3 being multithreaded but to be
honest, if it is it's very badly implemented. There may
be some help going on with the physics, but I can't see
anything much else worth getting excited over.
Far
Cry :::...
Far
Cry, like Doom 3, ran well on the X2. Again there's no massive
benefits to dual-core processing here, not a great surprise,
but we do at least know that the X2 is a perfectly good
gaming processor, at least so long as we don't run into
any SMP imcompatibilities like occasionally happened in
the "good ole days" of Quake 3.
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