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Let’s Super PI your PC!


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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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

45 Responses

  1. Avatar for D Mark D Mark says:

    i7 860 2.8Ghz 8GB: 32s

  2. Avatar for pHaZm pHaZm says:

    i7 940 @4.05 ghz – 00:00:23.209

  3. Avatar for Dale Sandberg 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.

  4. Avatar for jesus jesus says:

    Intel Celeron 336 2.8GHz: 3min 2sec !!

  5. Avatar for Franco Flores Franco Flores says:

    Mine:

    Pentiun e5200
    2gig ram
    windows xp sp3
    ati 4830

    57 secs for the 2M iteration.

  6. Avatar for Chris 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.

  7. Avatar for M&M 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

  8. Avatar for M&M M&M says:

    45 seconds for an Intel Q6600 Quad core @ 2.7 Ghz

  9. Avatar for Diego Manalang Diego Manalang says:

    Tested on my Sony Vaio

    1:39 on a 1.46 ghz Pentium Dual Core
    (Vista)

  10. Avatar for richz richz says:

    Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.7GHz
    1M – 12s
    2M – 32s

  11. Avatar for franz franz says:

    Core 2 Duo 1.73Ghz T2080
    1m 47 s

    so slow..haha

  12. Avatar for Jason Jason says:

    just passing by..

    Core 2 Duo E8400 @3.0Ghz OCed @3.6Ghz
    1M – 13s
    2M – 32s
    32M – 15m 45s

  13. Avatar for Josh Josh says:

    Core 2 Duo [email protected] OC’ed 2.9
    2M – 43 seconds
    32M – 17 minutes 17 seconds…

    Oh yeah :)

  14. Avatar for Paulo Paulo says:

    E6600 O’clocked to 3.0 Ghz …..40 s.. to 2M places

    —————“”—————–…….17s.. to 1M places

  15. Avatar for sant sant says:

    Dell inspiron

    Intel pentium dual core T2080
    1 GB RAM
    1 min 38 sec

  16. Avatar for Robert Robert says:

    Intel Celeron D 351 (256 L2 cache)
    1min 11 sec [1M]

  17. Avatar for Dave 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

  18. Avatar for Eric Eric says:

    Core 2 Duo E6600

    2M digits

    53secs

  19. Avatar for Carlos Carlos says:

    Core 2 Duo E6400 PC

    Stock (2.13 Ghz)
    55s

    Stock (3.2 Ghz)
    40s

  20. Avatar for Emjay Emjay says:

    1.29 Seconds on 2m Super PI. On Acer Travelmate 3260, Intel Core Duo T2300.

  21. Avatar for Zebedeus Zebedeus says:

    my intel D- processor
    3.0 Ghz

    1:19 for 32Million decimals for PI

    p.s. did i do something wrong?

  22. Avatar for Juan Tamad Juan Tamad says:

    Results on my (slow) Pentium D 945, stock speed:

    1 min, 16.469 s

    (using Super Pi 1.5)

  23. Avatar for Airman 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

  24. Avatar for TFR TFR says:

    Mobile Intel Pentium 4
    3.06ghz

    2m 25s

  25. Avatar for Robert Robert says:

    Toshiba A105 Core Sole 1.87
    1m22 Sec @m

  26. Avatar for Kiven Kiven says:

    Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 Merom (1.66GHz) – 1min 20secs

  27. Avatar for Ankan Banerjee Ankan Banerjee says:

    Compaq V3070TU, with procesor Core Duo T2030 (1.6 GHZ)

    1m36s

  28. Avatar for christian christian says:

    Pentium core 2 duo E6600 OC’ed to 3.1GHz, 39 seconds

  29. Avatar for Andy W 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

  30. Avatar for Poltergyst 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.

  31. Avatar for Derrick Derrick says:

    Desktop PC:
    Core 2 E6600 4mb L2cache (2.4GHz) [email protected]

    pi to 2M: 43sec

  32. Avatar for Abe Olandres Abe Olandres says:

    Thanks all for the inputs.

  33. Avatar for Carlo Carlo says:

    I used WINE to run Windows Applications on my Macintosh :)

  34. Avatar for kirk kirk says:

    in case you’re wondering, that’s via Bootcamp

  35. Avatar for kirk kirk says:

    MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo with 2GB RAM

    1 min 12 sec

  36. Avatar for Chad Manapat Chad Manapat says:

    Pentium 4 2 GHz, 1 Gig RAM with some other applications running.

    1min 50secs.

  37. Avatar for Fleeb Fleeb says:

    Intel’s pseudo quadcore (pseudo because it’s 4 cores, 2 cores on 2 separate dies :P) was released already.

  38. Avatar for jayvee f. 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!

  39. Avatar for Carlo Carlo says:

    tested my Macbook Pro Core 2 duo : 55secs

    Does it depend on OS as well? I think so.

  40. Avatar for jun jun says:

    retested it on my p4 3.0, got 1 min 41 sec

  41. Avatar for jun jun says:

    retested it on the core duo notebook: 1 min 21 sec

  42. Avatar for jun 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

  43. Avatar for Carlo 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

  44. Avatar for Miguel 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!

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