SSSmokin' Performance

John,

That isn't too bad and shows that Intel is finally catching up to AMD, albeit three years later than the FX53. I believe there have been some other postings down in that region, but not many. How does it do on SPECaps and STAR2.1?

I'm not sure I'd call it sssmokin yet. That is reserved for under 10 seconds on SOB, under 100 seconds on SPECapc and under 30 seconds for STAR2.1.

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Under 100 secs on the SPECapc benchmark would indeed be a smoking system - esp considering that the fastest speed posted so far on the SolidWorks discussion forum is 163 seconds (Precision 390 with X6800 CPU.)

I think you're confusing it with the part benchmark that Anna Wood has made available. A couple of overclocked C2D systems have completed that benchmark in under 100 secs.

No, I'm not confusing the 100 seconds with Anna's die block. I ran the

163 second time on Ship in a Bottle. I also ran the FX53 times. In the real world modeling environment both machines are about even when it comes to CPU bound events like rebuilding and drawings (.09 seconds difference). Since the FX53 is three years old and the X6800 is brand new I would come to the conclusion that X6800 is just holding it's own and that 100 seconds composite score or 20 seconds CPU score on SPECapc is SSSSSmokin. In my book the extra Ss require at least a doubling of speed over what could be achieved three years ago. Also there are other machines that have posted here that are faster than the FX53. I think those kind of scores are achievable today, but not with Intel.

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