HP Blackbird 002 High Performance Gaming System
For our second round of synthetic benchmarks, we ran the CPU and memory performance modules built into Futuremark's PCMark05 suite.
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"The CPU test suite is a collection of tests that are run to isolate the performance of the CPU. The CPU Test Suite also includes multithreading: two of the test scenarios are run multithreaded; the other including two simultaneous tests and the other running four tests simultaneously. The remaining six tests are run single threaded. Operations include, File Compression/Decompression, Encryption/Decryption, Image Decompression, and Audio Compression" - Courtesy FutureMark Corp.
Once again, the factory overclocked Blackbird 002 clearly outpaced our quad-core Core 2 Extreme reference systems. The Blackbird 002's 670MHz+ CPU clock speed advantage gives it a 22% lead over the next fastest system here.
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"The Memory test suite is a collection of tests that isolate the performance of the memory subsystem. The memory subsystem consists of various devices on the PC. This includes the main memory, the CPU internal cache (known as the L1 cache) and the external cache (known as the L2 cache). As it is difficult to find applications that only stress the memory, we explicitly developed a set of tests geared for this purpose. The tests are written in C++ and assembly. They include: Reading data blocks from memory, Writing data blocks to memory performing copy operations on data blocks, random access to data items and latency testing." - Courtesy FutureMark Corp.
The Blackbird 002's higher clocks also gave it a marked advantage in the PCMark05 memory performance module, where it outpaced the stock QX6850 and QX6800 based systems by 866 and 1252 points respectively.
