DFI 855GME-MGF Motherboard Review - Super Pi, SPECviewperf 7.1.1
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Super Pi
This is a test to see which setup can calculate one million digits of pi the quickest. Once again, the Pentium M shows its muscle. When it comes down to straight computation, the chip is wholly competitive with the Athlon64, the chip which had been wearing the crown as king of scientific and mathematical tasks. Bandwidth again seems to be a factor, but to a lesser extent than the STARS test. Simply changing that value gained two seconds alone.
SPECviewperf 7.1.1
SPECviewperf is a test provided by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. From their site:
"SPECviewperf® is a portable OpenGL performance benchmark program written in C. It was developed by IBM. Later updates and significant contributions were made by SGI, Digital (Compaq, HP), 3Dlabs (Creative Labs) and other SPECopcSM project group members. SPECviewperf provides a vast amount of flexibility in benchmarking OpenGL performance. Currently, the program runs on most implementations of UNIX, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Linux."
As you can see, the Pentium M isn't a fantastic chip for doing 3D graphics work. With a professional graphics card, this would be less of a problem since the OpenGL calls would be executed for the most part in hardware as opposed to software (therefore being done by the CPU), but you can't ignore the beating it receives from the AMD solutions in just about every one of the various program tests. Even overclocking doesn't make up the lost ground in half the tests compared to the two other chips sitting comfortably at 1.8GHz.
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