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 i7-2820QM Mobile Sandy Bridge Performance Review - Processors 42 

Intel Core i7-2820QM Mobile Sandy Bridge Performance Review - Processors 43 



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 i7-2820QM Mobile Sandy Bridge Performance Review - Processors 44 

Intel Core i7-2820QM Mobile Sandy Bridge Performance Review - Processors 45 

Raw number crunching doesn’t phase the Core i7-2820QM either and it is clearly the fastest of the four mobile processors.         

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