By: EBFE (ebfe.delete@this.na.com), May 9, 2012 9:50 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
none (none@none.com) on 5/4/12 wrote:
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>David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 5/4/12 wrote:
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>>Del (_@_.com) on 5/4/12 wrote:
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>>>Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra@ntlworld.com) on 5/3/12 wrote:
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>>>>Yes, AnandTech has the usual crappy phone benchmarks which show major performance gains: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5810/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-performance-preview
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>>>Thanks for the link, it does provide some insight.
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>>I've always been curious how well Linpack runs on phones : )
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>The Linpack you see tested on phones is written in Java. The
>performance has nothing to do with what the CPUs can do.
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>>>It seems obvious why Intel wanted to show off the Sunspider >bench, they were cherry
>>>picking hard. Medfield is not competitive even on single >thread load it seems.
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>>Which single threaded loads are you thinking?
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>SunSpider is single-threaded.
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It's not.
(though it depends on browser implementation)
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>David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 5/4/12 wrote:
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>>Del (_@_.com) on 5/4/12 wrote:
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>>>Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra@ntlworld.com) on 5/3/12 wrote:
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>>>>Yes, AnandTech has the usual crappy phone benchmarks which show major performance gains: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5810/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-performance-preview
>>>
>>>Thanks for the link, it does provide some insight.
>>
>>I've always been curious how well Linpack runs on phones : )
>
>The Linpack you see tested on phones is written in Java. The
>performance has nothing to do with what the CPUs can do.
>
>>>It seems obvious why Intel wanted to show off the Sunspider >bench, they were cherry
>>>picking hard. Medfield is not competitive even on single >thread load it seems.
>>
>>Which single threaded loads are you thinking?
>
>SunSpider is single-threaded.
>
>
It's not.
(though it depends on browser implementation)



