I chanced upon Joey Alarilla’s recent article on Intel Core 2 for gaming over at Hackenslash. He quoted one of Intel’s Executive that the Core 2 can deliver up to 40% better performance than previous generations of CPUs. Did he mean Core 2 Duo can be 40% faster than Core Duo? I think he meant Core 2 Duo vs. the Pentium M.
So I thought why not do an informal survey here and check out the performances of each different systems. We’ll use Super PI as our benchmark tool (download a copy here). The Super PI program calculates the value of pi to the nth decimal, so the shorter the time for your CPU to do this the faster it is.
For this purpose we’ll calculate pi to 2M decimal points. Here are my results:
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.66GHz) : 1 min, 20 secs.
AMD Sempron 3100+ (1.8GHz) : 1 min, 49 secs.
AMD Sempron 2600+ (1.6GHz) : 2 mins, 19 secs.
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33Ghz : 55 secs. (by Carlo, Macbook Pro)
Intel Core Duo 2.0Ghz : 1 min, 12 secs. (by Kirk, Macbook)
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (2.1GHz) : 1 min, 10 secs. (by Carlo)
Intel Core Duo T2400 (1.83 GHz) : 1 min, 21 secs. (by Jun)
Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz HTT : 1 min, 41 secs (by Jun)
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz: 1 min, 50 secs (by Chad)
Please go ahead and share with us your results. This coul prove to be helpful to those wanting to upgrade their PCs or laptops.
Now, if someone could give me the Super PI results for their Core Duo PCs or laptops, I’d appreciate it. :)
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D Mark says:
i7 860 2.8Ghz 8GB: 32s
pHaZm says:
i7 940 @4.05 ghz – 00:00:23.209
Dale Sandberg says:
On my 2.8 ghz core 2 Duo, MacBook Pro, with 4gb of 1067 MHz DDR3 ram i got 44 seconds running bootcamp with Windows XP, and 33 seconds running Crossover.
jesus says:
Intel Celeron 336 2.8GHz: 3min 2sec !!
Franco Flores says:
Mine:
Pentiun e5200
2gig ram
windows xp sp3
ati 4830
57 secs for the 2M iteration.
Chris says:
38 sec with X9000 Core 2 Extreme @3.2 GHz in a Dell XPS M1730 laptop. Bios O/C goes to 3.4 so there’s a little left.
M&M says:
Just ran again and saw that the CPU is not maxed. Don’t know why but I think something is holding it back
M&M says:
45 seconds for an Intel Q6600 Quad core @ 2.7 Ghz
Diego Manalang says:
Tested on my Sony Vaio
1:39 on a 1.46 ghz Pentium Dual Core
(Vista)
richz says:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.7GHz
1M – 12s
2M – 32s
franz says:
Core 2 Duo 1.73Ghz T2080
1m 47 s
so slow..haha
Jason says:
just passing by..
Core 2 Duo E8400 @3.0Ghz OCed @3.6Ghz
1M – 13s
2M – 32s
32M – 15m 45s
Josh says:
Core 2 Duo [email protected] OC’ed 2.9
2M – 43 seconds
32M – 17 minutes 17 seconds…
Oh yeah :)
Paulo says:
E6600 O’clocked to 3.0 Ghz …..40 s.. to 2M places
—————“”—————–…….17s.. to 1M places
sant says:
Dell inspiron
Intel pentium dual core T2080
1 GB RAM
1 min 38 sec
Robert says:
Intel Celeron D 351 (256 L2 cache)
1min 11 sec [1M]
Dave says:
HP Pavilion AMD Turion TL64x2 w2G ram
1 min 31 sec .. cpu usage 50-57% ram @39%
x 3
with 6 apps open+ live webcam feed 1 min 40 sec
Eric says:
Core 2 Duo E6600
2M digits
53secs
Carlos says:
Core 2 Duo E6400 PC
Stock (2.13 Ghz)
55s
Stock (3.2 Ghz)
40s
Emjay says:
1.29 Seconds on 2m Super PI. On Acer Travelmate 3260, Intel Core Duo T2300.
Zebedeus says:
my intel D- processor
3.0 Ghz
1:19 for 32Million decimals for PI
p.s. did i do something wrong?
Juan Tamad says:
Results on my (slow) Pentium D 945, stock speed:
1 min, 16.469 s
(using Super Pi 1.5)
Airman says:
Intel “Merom” Core 2 Duo (T7200) on HP dv6000t notebook.
SuperPi 1.04- Time to calculate 2M Digits= 1.02
Super 1/Multi-Threaded- Time to calculate 2M Digits= .31
TFR says:
Mobile Intel Pentium 4
3.06ghz
2m 25s
Robert says:
Toshiba A105 Core Sole 1.87
1m22 Sec @m
Kiven says:
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 Merom (1.66GHz) – 1min 20secs
Ankan Banerjee says:
Compaq V3070TU, with procesor Core Duo T2030 (1.6 GHZ)
1m36s
christian says:
Pentium core 2 duo E6600 OC’ed to 3.1GHz, 39 seconds
Andy W says:
Lenovo T60 with T5600 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo
Super PI / Mod1.5 XS
2M:
01m 17.156s
hope this helps,
AW
Poltergyst says:
heh, using one of the school of architecture’s core 2 duo x6800s @ 2.93ghz with 2gbs of ddr2 and several architecture applications open but doing nothing..43s. damn that’s fast.
Derrick says:
Desktop PC:
Core 2 E6600 4mb L2cache (2.4GHz) [email protected]
pi to 2M: 43sec
Abe Olandres says:
Thanks all for the inputs.
Carlo says:
I used WINE to run Windows Applications on my Macintosh :)
kirk says:
in case you’re wondering, that’s via Bootcamp
kirk says:
MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo with 2GB RAM
1 min 12 sec
Chad Manapat says:
Pentium 4 2 GHz, 1 Gig RAM with some other applications running.
1min 50secs.
Fleeb says:
Intel’s pseudo quadcore (pseudo because it’s 4 cores, 2 cores on 2 separate dies :P) was released already.
jayvee f. says:
i was with a fellow journalist the other day and he told me that he just got his hands on to a quad core intel box. its on loan from a computer company :)
ditch the core 2’s and get the quad cores. coming very soon!
Carlo says:
tested my Macbook Pro Core 2 duo : 55secs
Does it depend on OS as well? I think so.
jun says:
retested it on my p4 3.0, got 1 min 41 sec
jun says:
retested it on the core duo notebook: 1 min 21 sec
jun says:
p4 3.0 with ht – 1 min 52 sec
core duo 1.83 ghz – 1 min 22 sec
note: p4 with 2 gb ram, running other processes at the time
core duo: 512 mb ram
Carlo says:
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (2.2GHz): 1 min 10secs
This is my workstation here in the office hehe* haven’t tested my new macbook pro core 2 duo yet. Will do later and will post another one :D
Miguel says:
Is Super PI multithreaded already? If not, run two instances and see if they can them in the same time.
Me, I’m not foreseeing Core 2 soon. I was tempted to upgrade to go PCI-E video and play a certain game. But when I installed it last night, it still works on my two-year old desktop PC!