Experimental Tests
Euler 3D Fluid Dynamics

This fluid dynamics simulation is very CPU and memory intensive.  From the benchmark source website:

The benchmark testcase is the AGARD 445.6 aeroelastic test wing. The wing uses a NACA 65A004 airfoil section and has a panel aspect ratio of 1.65, a taper ratio of 0.66, and a 45 degree quarter-chord sweep angle. This AGARD wing was tested at the NASA Langley Research Center in the 16-foot Transonic Dynamics Tunnel and is a standard aeroelastic test case used for validation of unsteady, compressible CFD codes. Figure 1 shows the CFD predicted Mach contours for a freestream Mach number of 0.960.

The benchmark CFD grid contains 1.23 million tetrahedral elements and 223 thousand nodes. The benchmark executable advances the Mach 0.50 AGARD flow solution. Our benchmark score is reported as a CFD cycle frequency in Hertz.


Intel Core i7-2600K (and friends) Sandy Bridge Processor Review - Processors 95

Intel Core i7-2600K (and friends) Sandy Bridge Processor Review - Processors 96




Microsoft Image Composite Engine

This application takes any number of images and attempts to “stitch” them together to make a single panoramic image.

Intel Core i7-2600K (and friends) Sandy Bridge Processor Review - Processors 97

Intel Core i7-2600K (and friends) Sandy Bridge Processor Review - Processors 98



Hyper PI (Super PI)

From Wikipedia: Super PI is a computer program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point – up to a maximum of 32 million. It uses Gauss-Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of the program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute Pi to 232 digits.

Intel Core i7-2600K (and friends) Sandy Bridge Processor Review - Processors 99

Intel Core i7-2600K (and friends) Sandy Bridge Processor Review - Processors 100

The results continue to point to the power of the SNB architecture with a single threaded application. 

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