11 - Performance - Mandel | Data Comrpession

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 variants 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.

the FPU Mandel test again is HyperThreaded, multi-processor (SMP) and multi-core aware.

Again please observe the difference between the QX9770 and i7 920 processors. Anyone who smells value .. say "I". Man, and then look at that Q6600 it is almost looking dog-slow there.

CPU data compression

A data compression test much like Zipping something up, measured in MB/sec. Here also the picture is not any different. In combo with hyper-Threading enabled the Core i7 destroys anything in it's path.