Mathematica 5.2
In the domain of scientific calculation, we use the new version 6 of Mathematica from Wolfram Research and its integrated benchmark, MathematicaMark2006.
The Penryn has gains of 4-5% here and is far ahead of AMD’s K8. We can only hope the Phenom can bridge the gap.
The tests integrated to MathematicaMark2006 are the following: Data Fitting, Digits of Pi, Discrete Fourier Transform, Egeinvalues of a Matrix, Elementary Functions, Gamma Function, Large Integer Multiplication, Matrix Exponential, Matrix Multiplication, Matrix Transpose, Numerical Integration, Polynomial Expension, Random Number Sort, Singular Value Decomposition, and Solving a Linear System.
WinRAR 3.71
Since its version 3.6, WinRAR was given multithread optimizations. We compress in RAR at the highest level a total of 588 MB of files comprised of 493 Word & Excel files (69 MB), 22 e-mail Eudora files (251 MB) and a single wav audio format file (268 MB).
This time the gain offered by the Penryn dual core is 8% given that WinRAR is heavy in L2 cache use. Gains for the quad core version were smaller at around 6%.
