Performance - Data Compression | CPU-Bound 3D Rendering

CPU data compression

A data compression test much like ZIPing something up, measured in MB/sec. Things turn around and the 7750 takes a lead again.

CPU-Bound 3D Rendering

We recently stumbled onto this great little tool called Kribi Bench. It is a 3D rendering benchmark produced by the people at Adept Development. Kribi Bench is an SSE aware software renderer where a 3D model is rendered and animated by the host CPU and the average frame rate is reported. Now the great thing is, it therefore bypasses the GPU... so everything is in direct relation to your memory and CPU.

We used two of the included models with this benchmark: a "Sponge Explode" model consisting of over 19.2 million polygons and the test suite's "City" model that is comprised of over 107 billion polygons. The score is the actual number of frames rendered by the CPU per second.

This software is a 100% multi-threaded application, which loves SMP, HT and everything you can throw at it. We always see the multiple cores kick in very well with this test, obviously the Phenom 9950 takes a lead therefore.

We again see that the E8200 and X2 7750 BE are horribly close to each other. And again let me emphasize that the E8200 processor is roughly 75 to 100 USD more expensive!