World's Highest Performing Quad-Core Mobile Processor¹

¹ World’s highest performing quad-core mobile processor is based on SPECint_rate_base2006.

² SPECint*_rate_base2006 and SPECfp*_rate_base2006 are capacity-based metrics used to measure throughput of a computer that is performing a number of tasks. This is achieved by running multiple copies of each benchmark simultaneously with the number of copies set to set to the number of logical hardware cores seen by the operating system. SPEC* CPU2006 provides a comparative measure of compute intensive performance across the widest practical range of hardware. The product consists of source code benchmarks that are developed from real user applications. These benchmarks depend on the processor, memory and compiler on the tested system.

SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp, SPECrate are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For more information go to: www.spec.org/spec/trademarks.html.

Δ The Intel® Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool (Intel® DHCAT) is an extensible and experiential framework to assess user-centric digital home platform capabilities, reflecting many current and emerging usages. DivX* Pro Version 6.6 was used to convert Hi-Def video to DivX* format for Hi-Def video archival (1 hour). On2 VP7 was used to convert standard-Def video into flash format for viewing on YouTube* (1 hour). Photo processing application based on Dcraw Library Rev. 1.332 was used to convert raw pictures to JPEG format for photo compression (15 minutes).

Φ Adobe Premiere Elements* 4.0 is used to edit video. The input file is a ~1 minute, 59 second, ~370MB 1440x1080 HD video imported from an HD camcorder. The output is a ~7MB 352x288 video in 3GP format for mobile phones.

‡ Photodex ProShow Gold* 3.2 allows the user to combine photos, videos and music to create spectacular slide shows. The workload takes 29 high resolution jpeg photos and converts them to an mpeg2 DVD quality slideshow video file. The photos are in 3872x2592 resolution and total about 170MB. The output slideshow file is about 3 minutes and 9 seconds long.

∇ TMPGEnc* is a digital media application used for converting one video format to another. For this test TMPGEnc Xpress* 4.4 is used to convert a 1 minute 16 seconds (1.2GB) 1440x1080 h-def video file with VBR encoding to a (254MB) output HDV MPEG2 file at 1440x1080 with CBR encoding. This reduces the file size by approximately 4 times (1.2G to 254MB). Extrapolation of TMPGEnc Xpress 4.4 converting a 1 minute 16 seconds 1440x1080 HD video file to HDV format.

§ Adobe Premiere Pro* CS3 is a video editing tool for professionals with features like color correction and specials effects creation. In this test the project "F1 Demo 3wayCC.prproj" contains two 30-second segments HDV 1080p25 footage with a cross-dissolve transition applied across the entire 60s. The first 30s also has the effect "Three-Way Color Corrector" applied, independently adjusting the scene's shadows, highlights, and midtones. Additionally the 25fps input clip is converted to 29.7fps. The performance test measures the time to render a non-realtime preview of the first 7s (210 frames). This involves reading the two HDV source streams, applying the cross-dissolve, the Three-Way Color Corrector, and then encoding the result to a HDV file that is stored by Premiere Pro for later use when a preview of the rendered region is requested. Extrapolation of Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 rendering the first 7 seconds sed to calculate how long to render a 2-minute video based on the original 7 second workload.

± Autodesk 3DS Max* 2009 allows users to perform animation modeling, rendering and design visualization. The workload consists of a scene of a Dragon_Character_Rig.max rendered at 1920x1080. One frame is rendered. The render options set are atmospherics, effects and displacement. The advanced lighting options are also set.

µ POV-Ray* is a high-quality, freely available ray-tracing software package. The workload used here is the built in benchmark test included by the POV-Ray developers to evaluate total system performance using all of POV-Ray's features and is available for download at www.povray.org/download/benchmark.php. Sample scenes should not be used to benchmark POV-Ray because the sample scenes were written to debug the software and often only utilize part of the rendering features.

ß Cinebench* R10 is a benchmark tool used to measure the CPU and graphics capability for 3D rendering. The scenes use cpu-intensive features such as reflection, ambient occlusion, area lights and procedural shaders. The results shown are based on running the multi-core CPU rendering test.

ø 3DMark* Vantage is a 3D graphics benchmark, designed for Microsoft Windows Vista* and DirectX*10. It includes two graphics tests, two CPU tests, and several feature tests. The CPU tests measures the contribution of the processor on 3D graphical performance while the graphics test measures game simulation performance.

þ Lost Planet* is a third-person shooter video game, created by Capcom that takes place in the past and future of the planet E. D. N. III. For more information visit www.lostplanet-thegame.com.

θ Enemy Territory Quake Wars* is a multiplayer, team-based first-person shooter set in the futuristic Quake universe. Using a variety of weapons and vehicles, one team (either the invading alien Strogg or the human Global Defense Force) attempts to complete a series of objectives while the other defends. For more information visit www.enemyterritory.com.

ε Company of Heroes* is a real-time strategy game set in World War II. For more information visit www.companyofheroesgame.com.

Performance estimated for all results. Actual performance on final product may vary. See www.intel.com/performance/ for more information. SPEC, SPECint, SPECrate, are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See: www.spec.org for more information on the benchmarks.

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Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel® products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Intel Performance Benchmark Limitations.

Relative performance for each benchmark is calculated by taking the actual benchmark result for the first platform tested and assigning it a value of 1.0 as a baseline. Relative performance for the remaining platforms tested was calculated by dividing the actual benchmark result for the baseline platform into each of the specific benchmark results of each of the other platforms and assigning them a relative performance number that correlates with the performance improvements reported.