I chanced upon Joey Alarilla’s recent article on Intel Core 2 for gaming over at Hackenslash. He quoted one of Intel’s Executive that the Core 2 can deliver up to 40% better performance than previous generations of CPUs. Did he mean Core 2 Duo can be 40% faster than Core Duo? I think he meant Core 2 Duo vs. the Pentium M.
So I thought why not do an informal survey here and check out the performances of each different systems. We’ll use Super PI as our benchmark tool (download a copy here). The Super PI program calculates the value of pi to the nth decimal, so the shorter the time for your CPU to do this the faster it is.
For this purpose we’ll calculate pi to 2M decimal points. Here are my results:
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.66GHz) : 1 min, 20 secs.
AMD Sempron 3100+ (1.8GHz) : 1 min, 49 secs.
AMD Sempron 2600+ (1.6GHz) : 2 mins, 19 secs.
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33Ghz : 55 secs. (by Carlo, Macbook Pro)
Intel Core Duo 2.0Ghz : 1 min, 12 secs. (by Kirk, Macbook)
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (2.1GHz) : 1 min, 10 secs. (by Carlo)
Intel Core Duo T2400 (1.83 GHz) : 1 min, 21 secs. (by Jun)
Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz HTT : 1 min, 41 secs (by Jun)
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz: 1 min, 50 secs (by Chad)
Please go ahead and share with us your results. This coul prove to be helpful to those wanting to upgrade their PCs or laptops.
Now, if someone could give me the Super PI results for their Core Duo PCs or laptops, I’d appreciate it. :)
i7 860 2.8Ghz 8GB: 32s