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Q3 2007 CPU Performance Charts

By Vijay Anand - 29 Oct 2007

Results - SPEC CPU2000 v1.3 (Speed tests)

Results - SPEC CPU2000 v1.3 (Speed tests)

First up for comparison, we have the industry leading benchmark from Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's (SPEC) CPU2000 version 1.3. Consisting of two time consuming benchmark suites for measuring compute-intensive integer performance and floating-point performance, the organization's efforts to standardize comparison among several classes of computers have gained them wide accreditation and is an often used measurement of performance in the industry. When properly configured for the complete batch run, completion times aren't measured in minutes nor hours, but in days; that's how compute intensive it is even for the top of the line consumer and workstation systems. You would need a server farm if you ever wanted to reduce that timeline drastically, which even then is considered long for an average enthusiast benchmark.

The results on this page reflect scores from their integer and floating-point test suites and help us rank how capable each processor is in either type of workload. Thus, the higher the scores, the better. Generally, the results are influenced by the CPU architecture and frequency if all other system variables are constant as this is test suite uses a single-core only Expectedly, most of the Core 2 series fare better than the AMD's offerings, even if you were to scrutinize them at equivalent price points for both integer and floating-point workloads.

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