SuperPI has become an utility to benchmark modern systems. In August 1995, the calculation of pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits was succeeded by using a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo. The program was written by D.Takahashi and he collaborated with Dr. Y.Kanada at the computer center, the University of Tokyo. This record-breaking program was ported to personal computer environment such as Windows NT and Windows 95 and it is called Super PI.

The software offers up to 32M calculations of PI numbers. For all the CPUs, we tested up to 8M calculations:

The absolute raw speed of the E8600 shows its teeth in the SuperPI benchmark.

- wPrime

wPrime is a benchmarking application designed to use a highly multithreaded approach to calculating the square-roots of large amounts of numbers (up to 32 billion at this stage!)

wPrime uses all four cores of quad processors, therefore it can finish the fask much faster than a C2D.

The Intel E8600 needs 25.797 seconds to finish the task, while the Q9300 needs just 17.250 seconds.