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AMD Phenom X4 9850 Processor Review - B3 Stepping
| Manufacturer: | AMD |
| Product: | AMD Phenom 9850 Processor |
| Date: | Thu, Mar 27, 2008 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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Microsoft Excel 2007
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a powerful and widely used tool with which you can create and format spreadsheets, and analyze and share information to make more informed decisions. It allows you to import, organize and explore massive data sets within spreadsheets and then communicate your analysis with professional-looking charts. Excel 2007 also provides tools to “see” important trends and find exceptions in your data. Legit Reviews has two benchmarking tests that we do on Microsoft Office Excel 2007.
The first workload executes approximately 28,000 sets of calculations using the most common calculations and functions found in Excel. These include common arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, division, rounding and square root. It also includes common statistical analysis functions such as Max, Min, Median and Average. The calculations are performed after a spreadsheet with a large dataset is updated with new values and must re-calculate many data points. The input file is the 6.2 MB spreadsheet seen above.
Benchmark Results:Lots of people use Microsoft Office at work and home, so this is an important test for many of our readers. Many people don't run 28,000 sets of calculations at once, but if you do the CPU will determine how fast the task is completed. The Phenom 9850 Black Edition was nearly 27% faster than the Phenom 9600 Black Edition.
The Black-Scholes model is used in our second Excel test to calculate a theoretical call and put price using the five key determinants of an option's price: stock price, strike price, volatility, time to expiration, and short-term (risk free) interest rate.
This workload calculates the European Put and Call option valuation for Black-Scholes option pricing using Monte Carlo simulation. It simulates the calculations performed when a spreadsheet with input parameters is updated and must recalculate the option valuation. In this scenario we execute approximately 300,000 iterations of Monte Carlo simulation. In addition, the workload uses Excel lookup functions to compare the put price from the model with the historical market price for 50,000 rows to understand the convergence. The input file is a 70.1 MB spreadsheet and with 10 times the calculations of the first test, this one should take a bit longer to complete.
Benchmark Results:With 300,000 iterations of Monte Carlo simulation taking place in this benchmark it takes all the processors a bit longer to finish as it puts a good load on the system. The Intel Skulltrail system is in a league of its own as it completes the task in less than ten seconds. The AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition was 17% faster than the 9600 Black Edition.
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Page 2 - The Test System Page 3 - Sandra XII SP1 Memory Bandwidth Page 4 - Photodex ProShow Gold 3.2 Page 5 - Sony Vegas 8.0b Page 6 - Microsoft Excel 2007 Page 7 - Cinebench R9.5 Page 8 - Cinebench R10 Page 9 - POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 25 Page 10 - POV-Ray Real-Time Raytracing Page 11 - Call of Duty 4 Page 12 - Futuremark 3DMark06 Page 13 - Overclocking Results Page 14 - Power Consumption and Final Thoughts |
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