Re: SuperPi's performance characteristics do not, in my opinion, model any real world scenario
As opposed to what, windows media encoder?
First of all, I know of no other set of benchmark results that can be used to compare FSB vs. clock speed performance.
But, regardless, other than the fact that it makes P4 look bad, why is SuperPI not a good benchmark? It is a heck of a lot more "real world" than the legion of memory bandwidth numbers we see in every chip comparison.
Calculating Pi is a task that represents a class of operations. There are no restrictions on how to code a solution to the task, and it is open source. It's a perfect benchmark for one class of CPU operation. Yet this benchmark is never seen in typical reviews because Intel doesn't like it.
Windows media encoder, OTOH, is a specific, closed source binary that that performs a task that is also performed by other, similar programs. But WME gives strangely different results from other media encoding programs used to compare the same hardware.
Still, we see the results of the anomalous WME in every review - it even is run in the background in the most often used benchmark suite, affecting the results of every benchmark in the suite.
I think your conclusion is way off base. |
