ECS HDC-I Review

Testing:

Office 2007 Excel Big Number Crunch: This test takes a 6.2MB Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and performs around 28,000 sets of calculations that represent many of the most commonly used calculations in Excel. The measure of this test is how long it takes to refresh the sheet.

Lower Is Better

POV Ray 3.7: This program features a built-in benchmark that renders an image using ray tracing. The latest versions offer support for SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing), enabling the workload to be spread across the cores for quicker completion.

Higher Is Better

PCMark Vantage is used to measure complete system performance. PCMark runs a large variety of tests to simulate all the different performance-oriented tasks on a computer.

Higher Is Better

Once again, there's nothing significant either way. The board scores in the very middle of the group in Excel and has similar results to its fusion counterpart in the POVRay benchmark.