11 - Performance - Mandel | Data Decompression

Mandel FPU test

The Mandel FPU benchmark measures double precision (also known as 64-bit) floating-point performance through the computation of several frames of the popular "Mandelbrot" fractal. The code behind this benchmark method is written in Assembly, and it is extremely optimized for every popular AMD and Intel processor core variant by utilizing the appropriate x86 or SSE2 instruction set extension.

Now if you come from the Commodore 64 / Amiga era like me, you can probably remember rendering Mandelbrot graphics, and it took a full day to complete an image. Amazing where we are right now as the same set of calculations can be done in seconds & even real-time.

Where this mainboard lacked diminutively in memory bandwidth, it seems to have an edge on overall CPU performance. The FPU Mandel test again is HyperThreaded, multi-processor (SMP) and multi-core aware.

CPU data decompression

A data decompression test much like Un-Zipping something, measured in MB/sec. Highly memory bandwidth dependant, which shows.