Measure your Notebook CPU Speed

This could be fun and informative, just download this free program to calculate pi (windows based only).
ftp://pi.super-computing.org/windows/super_pi.zip
Then run the program to measure the time it takes to calculate pi to 2 million digits. Do it both while plugged in and under battery power and post your results along with the notebook model,CPU type & speed, amount of memory and hard drive size & RPM. If we can get 20-30 results(hopefully more) to be statistically significant I'll compile and post the results here in a week or so.

I'll go 1st.
IBM R40 (2897GAU) Pentium M 1.5 Ghz, 1GB ram, 60GB 7200rpm
AC powered 2:29 battery powered (adaptive cpu) 2:30

My homebuilt desktop P4 2.4 Ghz, 1GB ram, 250GB 7200rpm
2:53

Thanks
Jack

 

i must have been running something else before because now when I took it off ac and on to battery I got 2 min 35 secs I'll run it again on the AC and see what I get there.

zx5000 :: 2.4M :: 512 DDR :: 40gb 4200 RPM HD :: 15.4" :: Radeon 9600 Mobilty M10 :: Aquamark3 22,856

 

P4-M 2.4 512Ram, 4200RPM drive 2min 42

zx5000 :: 2.4M :: 512 DDR :: 40gb 4200 RPM HD :: 15.4" :: Radeon 9600 Mobilty M10 :: Aquamark3 22,856

 

Desktop HP Pavilion 750n
1.4ghz Pentium 4
512mb ram
80gig ???rpm hard drive

4 minutes 51 seconds


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Fujitsu S6210: 1.6Ghz PM ~ 768MB RAM ~ 60GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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IBM T41p 60GB HD @4200RPM, 512MB RAM, Pentium M 1.6GHz:

Plugged in: 2:23

Unplugged: 4:50 (? performance drops 100%, wow)

 

Sony Grt360
P4 3.06ghz
512mb ram
80gb 4200rpm

ac power - 2 min 5 sec
battery - 3 min 19 sec

 

My laptop is too old and knackeered for me to bother - it'd be hours not minutes!

However, for not windows peeps there are non windows versionds of the tests in the ftp tree.

I've forwarded this on to a few people and will post their numbers when they get back to me.

 

Here is another place to download from if the other is not working.
http://www.computerbase.de/downloads/software/benchmarks/super_pi/

Jack

 

I can't get the file, timing out I think.

Editor in Chief http://www.bargainPDA.com and http://www.SPOTstop.com

 

Hi Big Calhoun,
You might see if there is something running in the background that is slowing things down.

Jack

 

Hmmm...I was a little disappointed. v505 w/ 2.4ghz, 60gb (4200rpm), 1 gig memory:

@ 2.39 ghz (plugged in - 2 million digits) 3m 4s
@ 1.19 ghz (unplugged - 2 million digits) 4m 56s

I have a Vaio NV190 (P4 - 1.7ghz) and Libretto L5 (Transmeta Cruesoe @ 933mhz) I want to try this on and will post the results. Cooool.

 

Hi Gwheeler,
It does'nt matter if your notebook is older. It's just great to get the information[ ]

Jack

 

With AC power 3 min 3 sec
With Battery 3 min 3 sec

System:
Compaq R3000T
Celeron 2.8 Ghz
ATI 9000 IGP Shared 64MB with 516 MB RAM
40 GB HD 4200rpm

 

Error on the Battery Power It's 4 min 29 secs.

 

Okay, that second link did the trick for me.

Fujitsu P5020, PM 1.0, 1GB RAM, 60GB 4200RPM Drive, XP Pro

Plugged in - 3m 50s
Battery - 5m 29s

Editor in Chief http://www.bargainPDA.com and http://www.SPOTstop.com

 

Inspiron 8600; 1.7 Ghz Pentium M; 1 GB RAM; 60 GB 7200 RPM HD; ATI 9600 128 MB Video

Plugged in: 2 m 28 sec
On battery: 5 m 06 sec

 

Plugged in, Maximum Performance: 1m, 48s
Unplugged, Maximum Performance: 1m, 53s
Unplugged, Maximum Battery(600mhz): 4m, 22s
(oh, this get 5 hours of battery life)
Dell Inspiron 8600
Pentium 4 745 (1.8 ghz) (guess the dothan architecture really works)
512 mb RAM, radeon 9600 pro turbo
30gb 4200 rpm HDD

Another test is to make it calculate 400 million or something, and see how many cycles it gets through before it runs out of power. That would compare battery life and performance in a balance.

 

inspiron 8600
Pentium M 1.8 (dothan)
60gb 7200rpm HD
512 ram

plugged in: 1:52

 

I was thinking about this last night and just had too many 'Ginger Scrubs' to jump on the net. Are there any testing parameters? Each of my machines runs different software at startup. So to be fair, is everyone doing this in safe mode or disabling all the startup software???


BTW, a 'Ginger Scrub', as I call it, is 3 drops of lime juice, 1 shot of Meyers Dark Rum, and one 16 ounce bottle of West Indian/Jamaican/Caribbean type Ginger Beer (NOT! Ginger Ale). If you have sinus problems....you won't anymore.[ ]

 

Toshiba Satellite A35s159
Pentium 4 2.3Ghz
512Mb Ram
60Gb HD 4200Rpm
Win XP home edition.

AC 05m 28s
BATTERY 05m 29s

 

Big Calhoun... wuts ginger scrubs??

to answer ur question, i did this while running several normal applications... aim, mozilla firefox, outlook, and bittorrent.

 

Why are we even do this? This program just do pure CPU speed, it doesn't measure the overall notebook speed. So posting notebook spec, memory space, and harddrive speed is of no use. This topic should be said "Let's measure our notebooks' CPU speed" I'm not trying to pick on whoever started this, but it give people who doesn't have much knowledge a false sence of performance, especially those who planing to buy a notebook. You can goto place like ZDnet, and search for benchmark program. And pick a freeware one. Or better yet, goto this place, http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html?/b_e.html and get stuff like AIDA32 Enterprise, and Battery Eater Pro. BTW, both are freeware, and fit our need.

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For some reason, I feel it's a bit fair since this benchmark doesn't serve much purpose. And if the person see their mark is low and doesn't know how to disable startup programs, then that pc/notebook will always be that slow. Or do you expect people who run the test to see their benchmark score higher, but when go back to normal work and the system slow again.

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Big Calhoun

 

I dunno; I think all of that information makes a difference. As the program is running, I notice my HD activity. This leads me to believe that there is swapping of data going on. If that's the case, I would think it would be a fair test because it looks like the entire machine is being used:

1. Running application, calculations done with CPU
2. Storing data in memory to continue calculations
3. Swapping data in/out of memory as data is being calculated.

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>
did you notice that most laptop with the same CPU get about the same mark regardless of how big/fast their memory and the HD speed are?
IBM T41p P-M 1.6 w/ 512MB 4200RPM got 2:23
IBM R40 P-M 1.5 w/ 1GB 7200RPM got 2:29
Fujitsu P5K P-M 1.0 w/ 1GB 4200RPM got 3:50
Inspiron 8600 P-M 1.7 w/ 1GB 7200RPM got 2:28

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I think you would also have to factor in the bus speed, amount of ram, and memory speed. Regardless, I don't think anyone is using this as an absolute measure of performance. It's more of a fun thing. I personally have a much simpier test....how fast does my machine boot-up and how fast does Adobe Photoshop start. As long as it's within my patience threshhold, the machine is fine by me. []

 

freeman,

You may be right, I have no idea. To me it is interesting to see how my 1.7GHz Pentium-M (2MB Level 2 Cache) scores compared to regular Pentium 4 processors. Just for fun [ ]

AC= 2:03 min

 

wutever... its just for fun. No one said there is direct correlation of computer performance to how fast you can calculate pi.

 

On AC Power (after fresh reboot): 1:47

Mobile Athlon 64 3200+, 512 mb RAM, 80gb 4200RPM hard drive, ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 64mb

 

With 5 applications, including QCD player, running in the background (to get the most realistic real world result):
On AC: 2:16
Battery: 6:21 (ouch!)

Mobile Athlon 64 3200+, 512 mb RAM, 80gb 4200RPM hard drive, ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 64mb.

Update for fresh restart numbers to come.

 

Ok, I was the person who started this thread and like I said it is for fun 1st and for gathering information 2nd. I picked this program rather than a full fledged benchmarking suite because it was simple to run, small in size and easy to download and it does not need to be installed or uninstalled. This program's speed of completion is mostly determined by the CPU speed and to a lesser extent the speed of the memory bus and amount of memory and also hard drive access and transfer rate as there is swapping out to disk quite a bit. As far as shutting down the background tasks, go ahead if you want as it will make everything more accurate. A simple way to do this is just do the ctrl-alt-del and look at the processes running. You can then click on the cpu column and it sort the tasks by the % of cpu time they take. If the system idle process is at 98-99% then you should be ok to run and the results will be accurate within a percent or two, if not then end some of the processes that are using all the cpu cycles.
The real purpose of this experiment is to see how a Pentium M(banias) compares to the dothan and the P4 and other CPUs. I know that the memory, bus and HDD also play a part so that is taken into consideration as well. Another benefit of this is that people who are not that familiar with optimizing their system can see if thier system is inline with others of the same cpu and speed and if not look into what is running in the background and how it is affecting their performance and decide if that memory resident program is really needed, or maybe even discover that garbage the manufacturer put on their PC is bogging them down.

Freeman's suggestion of just seeing how fast windows boots and photoshop starts is a good test as well, but does not depend as much on the CPU speed and that what I was interested in. That test is mostly dependent on the hard drive speed and how well the drive is defragged. The is also a program called bootvis that can optimize file placement for fast booting, I used this and cut my boot time from 34 seconds to 29 seconds, I highly recommend it.

Thanks everyone for participating and continue to do so, ask frineds who have a notebook as well, even if it is an older P-III as I would like that information too as it's not a contest for bragging rights, but for fun and to help get a rough idea of how all the new and different CPUs compare with each other.

Jack

 

eMachines M2350; AMD XP-M 2800+; 512MB RAM; 60GB HD 4200rpm;

AC: 2 min 33 sec
Battery: 3 min 07 sec

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by bootleg2go

 

Anyone else want to test their notebook and add their results?
Over 400 have read this thread, but only about 15 or so have ran the program and posted results.

Thanks
Jack

 

Toshiba 5200
2.4M with 1gb ram
5400rpm 60gb hdd
Running 3 x web sessions, emule, outlook, media player.....

3:01 for 2M.

Will try again later with no background tasks.

Time to upgrade... anyone with a Pentium M 2.0 or a 3.2/4 P4 to compare?

Lotus7

 

Toshiba Tecra M2
Pentium M 735 (1.7 GHz)
512 MB RAM
60 GB HD (5400 RPM)

1:59 (AC Power)
4:17 (unplugged with "long life" power settings)

The only apps running were Norton & Zone Alarm

Old HP Desktop the Tecra replaced (P3 800MHz, 384 MB RAM, 40 GB HD):
7:04

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by rpaul

 

I agree,
Norton is a terrible power hog, it can easily consume 10% of your processing power even when it is doing nothing. I ended up getting rid of norton's stuff(used to be a big fan) as it was slowing everything down too much.

Jack

 

ECS-7331 (P4 2.8GHz 512Cache 533FSB) 512DDR 60GB 5400RPM HDD

Plugged in: 2:35
Unplugged: 3:34

A decrease of ~28%, bringing it down to 2.0GHz.

 

Just for fun I ran it with my Dimension 8250:
P4 3.06GHz, 512MB RAM, Radeon 9700 Pro

Plugged in: 1:58
Unplugged: Um, desktop PC...

Minimal apps running in background. Oh yeah, I also noticed that this program isn't multi-threaded, therefore unable to take advantage of hyperthreading in my system. What a pity...

 

Toshiba Satellite Pro TE2300
Pentium-M 1.5, 768MB RAM, 60GB 4200RPM HD, Windows XP Pro
Running lots of apps, including Virtual PC with Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003

2:53 on power
4:22 on battery - on lowest setting

And after seeing the results for the Dothan processor, I will probably end up getting the Tecra 1.7 Dothan machine - looks good.

Tim

 

AC: 2m 19s
DC(Dynamic Switching): 2m 19s

All test ran w/ mozilla, flashget, WallpaperChanger, Norton AV, SpeedSwitchXP(to manage my CPU power), Firewall running in background.

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if you can get norton corporate that doesn't use anywhere near as much processor, i have that always running, but unless it is scanning it never really uses processor. If I have that sitting in the background I pretty much always have 97% + free processor.

zx5000 :: 2.4M :: 512 DDR :: 40gb 4200 RPM HD :: 15.4" :: Radeon 9600 Mobilty M10 :: Aquamark3 22,856

 

Hi Freeman,
Thanks for running the test.
Can you post your CPU type and speed, your sig doesn't show that.

Thanks
Jack

 

2m 7s unplugged
1m 58s plugged in

Compaq Presario R3000Z
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (1.8ghz)
40G 4200RPM drive
512M memory

A ton of crap loaded, and talking on messenger wirelessly while its running. (given, the crap loaded is low overhead )



JJ

 

There is only one S6210.
<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by bootleg2go

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Andrew

 

Inspiron 8600, Pentium M 745 1.8Ghz, 768MB 333mhz RAM, 60GB 7200 RPM hard drive: 2 min, 10 sec.
Desktop- 1.8Ghz Pentium 4, 1GB 266mhz RAM, 120GB 7200 RPM hard drive: Around 4.5 minutes. Can't remember for sure.

I noticed some other people on here with Pentium M 1.8Ghz that were significantly faster. What gives? I wasn't running any processes that were using the CPU at the time other than the pi calculator.

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These signatures suck. I always mistake them as part of the post.

 

Were you using AC power, or battery?

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Fujitsu S6210: 1.6Ghz PM ~ 768MB RAM ~ 60GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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AC power. I have an app that can directly control the CPU speed though so it's always going at 1800mhz unless I want the battery to last.

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These signatures suck. I always mistake them as part of the post.

 

On Dell Inspiron 9100 P4 HT 3.2GHz, 1GB DDR400, 60GB 7200rpm, 128MB ATI 9700:
w/AC: 1:41, w/battery: 1:43

I got this system last week, but will be returning it cause I just placed an order for a new IBM Thinkpad T42 735 1.7GHz Dothan (15" SXGA+, 1GB DDR333, 60GB 7200rpm, 64MB ATI 9600). My big concern was regarding its performance comparing to Inspiron 9100. But seeing all these results from other Dothan (1.7 and 1.8) equipped laptops being under 2 minutes, gives me a hope that I should have a solid performance in terms of music production (math intensive virtual VSTi instruments)? Of course I'm planning to do lots of WinXP tweaking (www.musicxp.net and www.tweakxp.com). What do you guys think?