Mathematica benchmarks on the Asus EEE
If you are interested in gadgets then you will almost certainly have heard of the Asus EEE ultra portable (and ultra cheap) range of laptops. I have yet to get my grubby hands on one but I know one or two people who have already taken the plunge and one of them wanted to install Mathematica on his Asus EEE 900.
“No problem” said I “but would you mind running the Mathematica benchamark on it for me when you’re done”
He duly did so and the results are in. For reference, he un-installed the version of Linux that comes with the EEE and put Fedora Core 9 on it instead before installing Mathematica 6.0.0. The specs of the machine are
- 900Mhz Intel Celeron M
- 1GB RAM
- 20GB Solid State Drive
To run the Mathematica Benchmark you use the following commands
Needs[“Benchmarking`”]
BenchmarkReport[]
The overall result for the Asus EEE 900 was 0.43
To give you an idea of what this might mean – here are some other results (Higher is better)
- quad-core 3.0GHz Intel Xeon (Linux 64bit) 3.67
- 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 (windows) – 1.00
- AMD 2400XP (32bit Linux) – 0.67
The full list of timings (in seconds) for the Asus EEE were (lower is better)
- Total – 200.9 (a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 gives a total of 100)
- Test 1 – 5.15
- Test 2 – 2.41
- Test 3 – 3.10
- Test 4 – 15.90
- Test 5 – 18.20
- Test 6 – 1.81
- Test 7- 3.33
- Test 8 – 10.30
- Test 9 – 50.00
- Test 10 – 5.06
- Test 11 – 8.44
- Test 12 – 7.35
- Test 13 – 7.38
- Test 14 – 27.20
- Test 15 – 35.30
I’m not going to explain what each of these tests actually does because this is a post for current Mathematica users who are curious about Asus’ machines rather than a post about the benchmark itself.
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