Microsoft Excel 2007

Excel can be a very powerful mathematical tool. In this benchmark we're running a Monte Carlo simulation on a very large spreadsheet of stock pricing data.

Microsoft Excel 2007 SP1 - Monte Carlo Simulation

Sony Vegas Pro 8: Blu-ray Disc Creation

Although technically a test simulating the creation of a Blu-ray disc, the majority of the time in our Sony Vegas Pro benchmark is spend encoding the 25Mbps MPEG-2 video stream and not actually creating the Blu-ray disc itself.

Sony Vegas Pro 8 - Blu-ray Disc Image Creation (25Mbps MPEG-2)

Sorenson Squeeze: FLV Creation

Another video related benchmark, we're using Sorenson Squeeze to convert regular videos into Flash videos for use on websites.

Sorenson Squeeze Pro 5 - Flash Video Creation

Archiving Performance (PAR2 & WinRAR) Gaming Performance
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  • Eeqmcsq - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link

    Btw, Anand. I was looking for these Athlon IIs at Newegg, and I see an Athlon X2 5000+, 45nm, AM2+, 2.2GHz. Could you ask AMD where this came from. which die this is made from, why it's AM2+ only, etc?
  • fsdetained - Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - link

    This is the old Athlons, the k8 generation I believe. The athlon II's and Phenom II's are k10 generation, as well as Phenom I's I think.
    It's amd2+ because am3 wasnt out at the time it was made.
  • Eeqmcsq - Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - link

    no, it says 45m, even in AMD's product page. It was quietly launched, but I can't find any reports about it.
  • Eeqmcsq - Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - link

    sorry about the double post. The web server claimed there was an error on the 1st post, but apparently it was properly posted.
  • Eeqmcsq - Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - link

    no, it says 45m, even in AMD's product page. It was quietly launched, but I can't find any reports about it.
  • maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link

    Why you are care about this. All AMD products are crap. Period.
  • blackbyron - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link

    maddoctor, you are a tool and a true idiot. AMD is not crap. Sure I use intel because its faster, but AMD needs to change. I believe you are 100% intel fanboy. Back in 2005, do you know AMD dominated the market? If you say intel is cheaper and better than AMD and you hope that it'll go out of business, then intel will might increase the prices that start at $600.

    Sounds bad huh, doesn't it make you worry?

    Intel Fanboy = FAIL.
  • maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link

    Hey, you are name calling, so just buy AMD's products now if AMD's products are not crap. Even you have admit that Intel products are faster than AMD. You see that, AMD is crap that could not design processor properly like Intel. This is an evidence that Intel's engineers are smarter than AMD.
  • blackbyron - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link

    They are not crap, and I am not saying I like AMDs. The reason why AMD can't catch up Intel is they gave out rebates to customers and persuaded them to buy Intel cpus. Then EU filed a lawsuit against Intel for hurting consumers and were fined. Have YOU also heard about Intel that they paid dell 1 billion dollars not to use AMDs? You can't say AMD is crap. Do you know AMD makes really good graphics card?
  • maddoctor - Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - link

    What EC are wrong in their investigations. Intel is respect with law and did not do anything wrong. Just ask Anand. He will argue with me Intel is not a cheater and did not cheat with benchmark like AMD. AMD products are crap, if you buy it, you will regret wil its slower performance than Intel product.

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