Conroe benchmarking results under Unix

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A person offered me to run my Unix benchmark suite on a Conroe E6600 R5.

First run is non-overclocked (update, now also at 3.0 GHz):
- Conroe E6600
- 2x 1 GB non-ECC DDR2
- Bad Axe 3.04 unmodded

I'm posting as the suite runs through. It is not complete yet but I don't expect that to happen before I hit the sack.

Single-thread/process benchmarks 32 bit, user CPU time (wall clock multithreaded comes later). Not complete yet, but has scripting, Lisp, kernel compilation and video encoding:


Same with text at the bottom indicating which computer is strong in which domain (also has black+white for printing):
http://www.cons.org/cracauer/crabench/core2.user.html

The top bars are the Conroe, times are relative to a socket 939 Opteron at 2.6 GHz with 220 MHz memory. Times not complete yet but I might get to sleep before it completes, so here's what I have:

I know the numbers look disappointing for now but keep in mind this is non-overclocked and the Opteron at 3.08 GHz is not only overclocked, it has it's memory running at 300+ MHz which is higher than the DDR2 here for now, and that Opteron is single-core, the Conroe is dual-core.

Nontheless. For what is most important for me, compiling programs, this CPU is only 15% faster at the same clockspeed than a dual-core Opteron 939 (2.4 GHz Conroe is 5% faster than 2.6 GHz Opteron).

The benchmarks are not tuned towards either processor. It's running FreeBSD-6.0beta4 32 bit, SMP kernel. Everything compiled with generic compiler options that go for all processors, with the exception of the second run of mplayer (a video encoder), which first runs generic, then benchmarks how fast it recompiles itself to a specialized version, then runs the specialized version. You can move this harddrive between computers as you like (in fact that is how I run the benchmark suite).

More information about the benchmark is here:
http://forum.useless-microoptimizati.../crabench.html

The FAQ has all the info on individual benchmarks run here, more results are there or linked to, and the sourcecode for everything can be downloaded there.

I am working on a 64 bit version, which will also be much heavier on the multi-threaded benchmarks than this one.

I'll update this thread as more results come in. A single run through my suite takes 12 hours and I won't be home tomorrow so be patient.

The setup has watercooling and 2x 1 GB DDR2-1000 Super Talent (the stuff Fugger was raving about), so overclocked results should appear soon.

If you have any question please feel free to ask. Do not ask to get the CPU, I gave a harddrive with a copy of my benchmarks to a person running it for me and I fetch the results as they are computed.