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. 
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Is Super PI multithreaded already? If not, run two instances and see if they can them in the same time.
Me, I’m not foreseeing Core 2 soon. I was tempted to upgrade to go PCI-E video and play a certain game. But when I installed it last night, it still works on my two-year old desktop PC!
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (2.2GHz): 1 min 10secs
This is my workstation here in the office hehe* haven’t tested my new macbook pro core 2 duo yet. Will do later and will post another one
p4 3.0 with ht - 1 min 52 sec
core duo 1.83 ghz - 1 min 22 sec
note: p4 with 2 gb ram, running other processes at the time
core duo: 512 mb ram
retested it on the core duo notebook: 1 min 21 sec
retested it on my p4 3.0, got 1 min 41 sec
tested my Macbook Pro Core 2 duo : 55secs
Does it depend on OS as well? I think so.
i was with a fellow journalist the other day and he told me that he just got his hands on to a quad core intel box. its on loan from a computer company
ditch the core 2’s and get the quad cores. coming very soon!
Intel’s pseudo quadcore (pseudo because it’s 4 cores, 2 cores on 2 separate dies :P) was released already.
Pentium 4 2 GHz, 1 Gig RAM with some other applications running.
1min 50secs.
MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo with 2GB RAM
1 min 12 sec
in case you’re wondering, that’s via Bootcamp
I used WINE to run Windows Applications on my Macintosh
Thanks all for the inputs.
Desktop PC:
Core 2 E6600 4mb L2cache (2.4GHz) OCed@3.0Ghz
pi to 2M: 43sec
heh, using one of the school of architecture’s core 2 duo x6800s @ 2.93ghz with 2gbs of ddr2 and several architecture applications open but doing nothing..43s. damn that’s fast.
Lenovo T60 with T5600 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo
Super PI / Mod1.5 XS
2M:
01m 17.156s
hope this helps,
AW
Pentium core 2 duo E6600 OC’ed to 3.1GHz, 39 seconds
Compaq V3070TU, with procesor Core Duo T2030 (1.6 GHZ)
1m36s
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 Merom (1.66GHz) - 1min 20secs
Toshiba A105 Core Sole 1.87
1m22 Sec @m
Mobile Intel Pentium 4
3.06ghz
2m 25s
Intel “Merom” Core 2 Duo (T7200) on HP dv6000t notebook.
SuperPi 1.04- Time to calculate 2M Digits= 1.02
Super 1/Multi-Threaded- Time to calculate 2M Digits= .31
Results on my (slow) Pentium D 945, stock speed:
1 min, 16.469 s
(using Super Pi 1.5)
my intel D- processor
3.0 Ghz
1:19 for 32Million decimals for PI
p.s. did i do something wrong?
1.29 Seconds on 2m Super PI. On Acer Travelmate 3260, Intel Core Duo T2300.
Core 2 Duo E6400 PC
Stock (2.13 Ghz)
55s
Stock (3.2 Ghz)
40s
Core 2 Duo E6600
2M digits
53secs
HP Pavilion AMD Turion TL64×2 w2G ram
1 min 31 sec .. cpu usage 50-57% ram @39%
x 3
with 6 apps open+ live webcam feed 1 min 40 sec
Intel Celeron D 351 (256 L2 cache)
1min 11 sec [1M]
Dell inspiron
Intel pentium dual core T2080
1 GB RAM
1 min 38 sec
E6600 O’clocked to 3.0 Ghz …..40 s.. to 2M places
—————”"—————–…….17s.. to 1M places
Core 2 Duo E6550@2.33Ghz OC’ed 2.9
2M - 43 seconds
32M - 17 minutes 17 seconds…
Oh yeah
just passing by..
Core 2 Duo E8400 @3.0Ghz OCed @3.6Ghz
1M - 13s
2M - 32s
32M - 15m 45s
Core 2 Duo 1.73Ghz T2080
1m 47 s
so slow..haha
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.7GHz
1M - 12s
2M - 32s