Dual Core Linux Performance: Two Penguins are Better than One
by Kristopher Kubicki on July 1, 2005 5:55 AM EST- Posted in
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Multitasking Scenario 3: Web Browsing
This benchmark is essentially exactly like Anand's original benchmark but we added more web page windows. We are using additional instances of FireFox to really put a strain on the system since we were particularly pleased with the results of this benchmark.
- Open FireFox 1.0.4 and load 10 web pages
- Open XMMS and start playing a Nine Inch Nails CD ripped to Ogg
- Open Thunderbird
- Import 130MB saved mbox and begin timing the import
- Bring the FireFox windows to the foreground
Even with additional instances of FireFox, the import times are much faster than the Windows counterpart of this benchmark. Granted, the Linux machines are not running Anti-Spyware nor Norton Anti-virus as in the original benchmarks either.
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ProviaFan - Friday, July 1, 2005 - link
On the OS and Kernel rows in the table on the Hardware page, the contents are reversed... :)blackbrrd - Friday, July 1, 2005 - link
I tried putting together a Pentium D820 and an Amd 64 x2 4200+ in a norwegian webshop (cpu+motherboard+1gb ram) and they came out about equally pricedQuestar - Friday, July 1, 2005 - link
Wouldn't the buffer underruns on the DVD burning tests be caused by disk contention and not CPU load?The DvD - Friday, July 1, 2005 - link
Interesting review. Nice work, Kristopher.btw, shouldn't there be a j=3 graph for the 4200+ in the compiling multitasting benchmark?
Frallan - Friday, July 1, 2005 - link
Interesting... AMD does not show Intel the door in this one. However it would be very interesting to se total costs of system and the 4400+ as well.Gratz Intel!
Viditor - Friday, July 1, 2005 - link
I must say that this review very much surprises me! The Pentium D looks much stronger than it has in any of the other reviews...congrats to Intel on this one.Tiamat - Friday, July 1, 2005 - link
The "siamese" penguin image gave me a nice laughViditor - Friday, July 1, 2005 - link
I will NOT say first post!One question so far...were the default memory settings on the AMD setup 1T or 2T?
shane3in1 - Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - link
I was wondering the same thing.