¹ SYSmark* 2007 Preview is BAPCo's latest version of the mainstream office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark tool used to characterize the performance of the business client. SYSmark 2007 Preview features user-driven workloads and usage models developed by application experts.
² SPECint*_base2006 and SPECfp*_base2006 are speed-based metrics, calculated from the time it takes to complete a series of individual applications, each run one after another. Unless each application is compiled specifically to be parallel, these tests are single-threaded and will not show any performance benefits of a multicore processor. SPECint*_rate_base2006 and SPECfp*_rate_base2006 are capacity-based metrics used to measure throughput of a computer that is performing a number of tasks. This is achieved by running multiple copies of each benchmark simultaneously with the number of copies set to set to the number of logical hardware cores seen by the operating system. SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp, SPECrate are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For more information go to: www.spec.org/spec/trademarks.html.
³ 3DMark*06 from FutureMark is a benchmarking tool that combines DirectX 9.0* support with unique tests and graphics. The CPU Test measures the contribution of the processor on 3D graphical performance while the Game Test measures game simulation performance.
∇ PCMark*05 Test from FutureMark is an application-based benchmarking tool used to measure overall PC performance. By using portions of real applications, this benchmarking tool can assess PC performance.
§ The workload used here is the built in benchmark test included by the POV-Ray developers to evaluate total system performance using all of POV-Ray's features and is available for download at www.povray.org/download/benchmark.php. Sample scenes should not be used to benchmark POV-Ray because the sample scenes were written to debug the software and often only utilize part of the rendering features.
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