As I sit here working on the next speed-bump CPU review, trying to somehow make it interesting for you all, I figured I'd just pop in and ask.
Are there any requests in particular for benchmarks you guys would like to see in a not-so-big upcoming CPU review? It won't be a dual core piece, and I've already beaten to death the idea that single core CPUs aren't so hot at multitasking so I don't see much of a need for more there. I was thinking about doing a few lighter multitasking loads to see what the difference in performance would be between a fast single core and a slower dual core with more moderate multitasking involved. Other than that, there's not too much else I've been able to come up with that may be interesting (outside of stuff I can't really talk about yet :)...).
I am also working on updating our benchmark suite (yes, with a new version of Premier as well) but that's not done just yet. So chime in with your thoughts and requests - I can't guarantee that I'll be able to address them all, but I'll do my best.
Are there any requests in particular for benchmarks you guys would like to see in a not-so-big upcoming CPU review? It won't be a dual core piece, and I've already beaten to death the idea that single core CPUs aren't so hot at multitasking so I don't see much of a need for more there. I was thinking about doing a few lighter multitasking loads to see what the difference in performance would be between a fast single core and a slower dual core with more moderate multitasking involved. Other than that, there's not too much else I've been able to come up with that may be interesting (outside of stuff I can't really talk about yet :)...).
I am also working on updating our benchmark suite (yes, with a new version of Premier as well) but that's not done just yet. So chime in with your thoughts and requests - I can't guarantee that I'll be able to address them all, but I'll do my best.
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Anon. - Sunday, June 19, 2005 - link
A few microbenchmarks would be nice. The memory latency and bandwidth benchmarks from LMbench, the STREAM benchmarks, etc.To explore the dual-core performance issues, consider the OpenMP NAS Parallel Benchmarks (http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Software/NPB/) and the HPCC benchmarks (http://icl.cs.utk.edu/hpcc/). Although "batch"-style benchmarks, they show quite some difference between the dual-core systems.
deuce - Sunday, June 19, 2005 - link
can you give me an approximate date to when your article on the ps3 and xbox360 comparison will be posted?illissius - Sunday, June 19, 2005 - link
Well, overclocking, for one ;)Other than that... compiling is mainly all I actually use it for, which you already have. How well it scales on multiple cores/CPUs would be nice to see, though. (In previous reviews, either whatever was compiled didn't support parallel compilation (make -jN), or it just wasn't enabled.)
Demo24 - Sunday, June 19, 2005 - link
I would like to see some BF2 cpu marks. I dunno if that is really fitting into what your wanting but it could put some strain on multitasking. I know it uses a bunch of ram but not so sure on CPU load.Eric Florenzano - Sunday, June 19, 2005 - link
I'd like to see a benchmark of the Quicktime 7 Beta for Windows, seeing as it's so CPU-Intensive, and I have yet to get this working smoothly with 1080p on my A64 3800+. It'd be interesting to know if the FX-57 could handle this better...Oops, I mean, the "next speed-bump CPU review."boban10 - Sunday, June 19, 2005 - link
i would like to see the bench of real media producer (i asked it few times already), and a new Divx 6 codec, but not normal version, but a DivX Helium version: http://labs.divx.com/archives/000055.html(that one is optimized for dual-core cpus)
well thats all, i find more interesting dual-core cpus anyway...