Core 2 Quadro Review - Benchmarks
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We started with a personal favorite, Super PI 1M. A single instance of Pi 1M scored a respectable 21.031 seconds.
At default clocks, this system scores 0.7 seconds better than the world record set on an AMD setup. As a general indication our FX60 scores 35.188 seconds.
But this is a quad threaded CPU, so it wouldn't be right to restrict ourselves to a single threaded test.
To address that complaint simply enough, we ran two Super Pi 1M instances. This setup scored 21.103 seconds. In comparison, our FX60 scores 35.813 seconds in this test.
We have, however, four processing cores on this CPU, so we really need four instances to let this chip shine. With four instances of 1M it still held a respectable 24.5 seconds. This is over three times as fast as the 74.177 second result our FX-60 achieved in this test (no doubt because our FX-60 only has 2 cores so the tasks needed to be split up on individual cores).
Super Pi 1M | Core 2 Quadro QX6600 | AMD FX60 |
1 Instance | 21.013 | 35.188 |
2 Instances | 21.103 | 35.813 |
4 Instances | 24.457 | 74.177 |
Afterward we moved to SiSoft's Synthetic Benchmarks.
First we tried the Arithmetic benchmark, in which the Kentsfield scored an impressive 57072 and 22403 in Dhrystone and Whetstone algorithms respectively, more than doubling every comparison setup within SiSoft's database. This lead was no different in the multimedia tests scoring 258337 and 141786 in the Integer and Float tests respectively, again more than doubling every competing chip.
Here is a comparison with this chip and our FX60 setup.
SiSoftware | Core 2 Quadro QX6600 | AMD FX60 |
Arithmetic (Dhrystone) | 57072 | 21420 |
Arithmetic (Whetstone) | 22403 | 11252 |
Multimedia (Int) | 258337 | 47499 |
Multimedia (Float) | 141786 | 51977 |
Keep in mind however, SiSoft is notorious for its unnatural use of multiple threads. In general, real life scenarios won't benefit to such a degree from the use of four threads. However some applications gain from the running of multiple instances, for example, distributed processing like that conducted by Stanford University (see here: http://folding.stanford.edu/). We ran four threads on this setup and two on our AMD setup over a period of 24 hours, and noted the increase in score.
| | Core 2 Quadro QX6600 | AMD FX60 |
Folding@Home | 2987 | 555 |
The sheer difference here is incredible. It should be noted that scores can vary due to the work units they received, but this lead is unmistakably huge.
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