CrystalMark 2004R3
SuperPi
My first benchmarks are here. It's pretty easy to see where the extra CPU muscle comes in, especially in CrystalMark. I recall mentioning that the Athlon L110 was being beaten by the Atoms in CrystalMark because of the Hyper Threading of the Atom. That advantage of the Atom is now gone with a dual core Athlon. The CPU scores have doubled, and that pushed the total score to nearly double its original rating.
The lead in SuperPi is, well, not there. They are, for the sake of argument, identical to the L110's scores. So single core performance is the same. Duh.
A few things strike me as odd once again. The HDD score this time nearly doubled as well. The memory score went up as well. However, the graphics scores actually went down in the D2D and OGL tests. I'm thinking the graphics part has to do with drivers. The first time I ran these benchmarks I was using ATI's Legacy driver package, and this time I'm using the ones from Windows Update. I couldn't seem to find the same legacy package that I used before, so I gave up after 5 minutes of looking.
And just for a bit of fun, I ran HyperPi (multi-threaded SuperPi) on my recently built Core i3 540 rig. 1M was done in 22 seconds and 2M was finished in 49 seconds. This was with 4 threads being used (Core i3 is dual with HT). Really illustrates the performance gap between old mobile AMD chips and shiny new Intel desktop parts. I love apples to giraffes comparisons.
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