Mathematica 6
In the domain of scientific calculation, we use the new version 6 of Mathematica from Wolfram Research and its integrated benchmark, MathematicaMark2006.
In Mathematica, K10 architecture adds a big performance gain at more than 32%. However, the gap is still large compared to the competition with Phenom 9600 only attaining 71% of the Q6600’s performances.
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).
With slightly more than a 13% gain, K10 considerably improves performances compared to K8 ; however, once again, this is not enough to surpass the Core2 Q6600. WinRAR does not really take advantage of 4 cores and for the first time we see the Phenom being slower than the Athlon 64 X2 6400+.
