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Principled Technologies, Inc.: Performance on Microsoft Windows
Vista of Intel vPro technology-based and AMD processor-based PCs
in common business scenarios
Figure 2: Median test times, in seconds, for both test systems on all five scenarios. Lower numbers are better.
Test results and analysis
In this section we examine the results of each of our tests. Figure 2 shows the times, in seconds, that each test
system needed to complete each scenario. The times we show for each platform for each scenario are from the
median run of the five test runs of that scenario on that platform. (We defined the median run as the one with the
median sum of the times of its timed tasks.)
Tests
AMD Athlon 64 X2
5200+ processor on
ASUS M2NBP-VM CSM
Intel vPro with Core 2
Duo processor E6700
n Intel DQ965GF
Communications and collaboration
Opening a compressed Outlook XML file attachment (FG) 15.41 13.56
Microsoft Groove 2007 sync (BG) 50.39 22.79
Intuit QuickBooks scenario
Viewing a set of reports in Intuit QuickBooks Pro 2006 5.20 4.15
Excel recalculation scenario
Recalculating business revenue using Microsoft Excel
45.41 28.55
Monte Carlo simulation
Running a Monte Carlo simulation in Microsoft Excel 2007 5.83 4.63
Dual-monitor Windows Vista Aero scenario
View a slideshow while a video plays (tester analysis) choppy smooth
Play an HD video (tester analysis) poor smooth
We explain the dual-monitor scenario's results in the Test results section on the dual-monitor scenario. Basically,
the Intel vPro technology-based PC with the Intel Core 2 Duo processor E6700 had no problems during the
slideshow transitions or with the HD video playback, while the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ processor-based PC
paused between all slide transitions and had poor HD video playback, with significant video glitches covering
approximately 40 percent of the screen during the playback.
In the following sub-sections we explore these results in more detail. To make comparisons easier, we always
show results normalized to those of the slower system, the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ processor-based PC. To
compute those normalized results, we divided the other system’s time by the time it took the slower system. The
result for the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ processor-based PC is thus always 1.00, because it’s the comparison
basis. Results higher than 1.00 indicate how much faster the Intel vPro technology-based PC with the Intel Core 2
Duo processor E6700 is than that system. Because of the normalization, higher result numbers are better. For
example, a result of 1.80 would mean the Intel vPro technology-based PC with the Intel Core 2 Duo processor
E6700 was 80 percent faster than the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ processor-based PC.
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