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Re: turion/mobile athlon benchmark



Tamas K Papp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to decide whether to buy a turion/amd mobile laptop.  I
> need to know how much performance I would gain compared to my 1.33 Ghz
> G4 powerbook.  I mainly use the laptop for numerical work (I am an
> economist).
> 
> I am asking those who own turion/mobile athlon based machines to
> please

I have an overclocked socket 754 Newcastle 3400+. It's not mobile, but
what the heck. After trying the test a few times, I disabled cpu
frequency scaling (cpufreq-set -g performace) and that boosted the early
results proportionately.

bugfood@bugfood:~/perl$ /usr/lib/atlas3-test/xzinvtst

NREPS  ORDER   UPLO      N    LDA      TIME     MFLOP         RESID
=====  =====  =====  =====  =====  ========  ========  ============

    0    Col     GE    100    100     0.005   1594.32  9.536429e-03
    0    Col     GE    200    200     0.028   2281.75  1.116727e-02
    0    Col     GE    300    300     0.084   2568.61  1.244014e-02
    0    Col     GE    400    400     0.179   2858.08  2.111688e-02
    0    Col     GE    500    500     0.329   3037.70  2.246591e-02
    0    Col     GE    600    600     0.567   3046.18  1.968228e-02
    0    Col     GE    700    700     0.868   3160.08  2.345843e-02
    0    Col     GE    800    800     1.278   3203.99  2.368572e-02
    0    Col     GE    900    900     1.746   3339.32  2.717980e-02
    0    Col     GE   1000   1000     2.375   3367.67  2.801465e-02

10 cases: 10 passed, 0 skipped, 0 failed
bugfood@bugfood:~/perl$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 14
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+
stepping        : 0
cpu MHz         : 2556.109
cache size      : 512 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm
3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 5115.47
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp


-Corey



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