SuperPI calculates the number PI to 1 Million
digits in this raw number crunching benchmark. The benchmark is fairly diverse
and allows the user to change the number of digits of PI that can be calculated
from 16 Thousand to 32 Million. The benchmark, which uses 19 iterations in the
test, is set 1 Million digits.
Lower numbers denote faster calculation times
(seconds), and hence, better performance.
Super PI (1
Million digits) Benchmark Results (Lower is better) |
|
Processor |
Seconds |
Ranking |
1. |
AthlonXP 3000+ 166/333 |
48 |
|
2. |
AthlonXP 3000+ 200/400 |
44 |
|
Honestly this was the benchmark that surprised me the
most. I always thought Super Pi was mainly CPU limited but here we
get a very healthy 4 second decrease in time thanks to the faster
FSB!
The Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer (POV-Ray) is
an all round excellent package, but there are two things that particularly make
it stand out above the rest of the crowd. Firstly, it's free, and secondly, the
source is distributed so you can compile it on virtually any
platform.
Lower numbers denote faster calculation times
(seconds), and hence, better performance.
POVRay
Benchmark Results (lower is better) |
|
Processor |
Seconds |
Ranking |
1. |
AthlonXP 3000+ 166/333 |
145 |
|
2. |
AthlonXP 3000+ 200/400 |
144 |
|
POV-Ray
cannot really
differentiate between the processor bus speeds. POV-Ray is a pure FPU
benchmark and because the CPU speeds are approximately the same, performance is
as well.