Excel speed test comparison against an FX-8350

[Deders]

Just for reference this is the score I got first run on a P4 3.6GHz with hyperthreading enabled

 

[Face2Face]

Time to bump an old thread and see what current Haswell owners can do.

 

[John Tauwhare]

Bring it on people. <21.14 needed to beat Face2Face's 3570K

 

[Face2Face]

Gonna bump this again -- Calling some high clocked Haswell's please!!!

 

[BallaTheFeared]

I was gonna open a can of +5GHz, but I'm getting enough flack already

 

[Face2Face]

I was gonna open a can of +5GHz, but I'm getting enough flack already

Yeah buddy, very nice. Do some 5Ghz+ runs if you can Gotta give some people something bigger to beat. Very nice chip BTW - Did you pull that chip from Lil wayne's mouth?

 

[theMayn]

Hello all! Only today i see this tread...
My story was:
4 Years from now i got a q6600 to process a excell sheet...
I originali created this excel sheet on excel2003 and it runs some thousands of calculations, with complex interactions, and multiple macros with realtime data.
Originaly i used excel with afinity with only one core, and with priority of realtime.
When i tried export that sheet to excel 2007 the result with my quad core q6600 was way to slow... the multi thread do not really work and the sheet So my conclusion was that microsoft made an visualy apealing produt but only that, as we we really lost speed. In the excel2010 has we have the same base-coding we have the same problem!
Until today i use only the excel 2003. (Your macro file its for excel2077!)
Jonh can you try run your macro speed file with excel2003? The results may be interesting!
(If you can chose afinity with only one core and with realtime that may be better)

 

[ntagger]

Wow, I'm glad I stumbled upon this old thread. Going to upgrade my CPU/MoBo combo after a Q9550 died on me and I use Excel quite heavily.

I guess the FX-8350 is out of the question now, so i'm deciding between these:

i5-4460
E3-1230 v3 (or E3-1231 if i can find on to a ok price in Hong Kong)
i5-4690K

I'm assuming most of you are going to recommend the 4690K (and overclock it) but will the xeon be a bad performer in excel? It looks like excel likes higher GHz.

Any advice is appreciated.

 

[alecmg]

I suggest Skylake 6600K... and overclock it!
Whatever advantage in IPC it will come handy.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/skylake-intel-core-i7-6700k-core-i5-6600k,4252-6.html

 

[DrMrLordX]

Nice thread necro. Anyone considering LibreOffice Calc as an alternative may be impressed with its OpenCL capabilities, which should be very nice on Kaveri, Broadwell, and Skylake.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Nice thread necro. Anyone considering LibreOffice Calc as an alternative may be impressed with its OpenCL capabilities, which should be very nice on Kaveri, Broadwell, and Skylake.

Biggest problem is LibreOffice Calc is a complete joke compared to Excel. Its really night and day difference.

 

[DrMrLordX]

*shrug* some people like it, some don't. It's very fast with OpenCL acceleration, which is something Excel can't do right now.

 

[Makaveli]

wow this thread is two years old nice necro!

 

[ntagger]

I know... It's old, but that's how often excel benchmarking seem to come up. Even Google the subject doesn't give you much.

Just trying to figure out what cpu works best... Sorry drag an old corps out.

Actually if someone with an e-1230 or 4690k ran the benchmark that would be awesome! Cheers

 

[gorion]

Biggest problem is LibreOffice Calc is a complete joke compared to Excel. Its really night and day difference.

Calc can still do quite useful things like data tables, pivot and scenario analysis.

The biggest problem is Calc to Excel support and viceversa.

For average Joe Calc is well enough.

If you are a financial-business analyst type Excel is better.

 

[biostud]

doesn't seem to be very multi-threaded.

37.3s on my rig.

 

[frozentundra123456]

*shrug* some people like it, some don't. It's very fast with OpenCL acceleration, which is something Excel can't do right now.

Personally, I hate it. But I do a lot of other work with MS office and data bases, and cant take the chance of any incompatibility.

 

[MiddleOfTheRoad]

*shrug* some people like it, some don't. It's very fast with OpenCL acceleration, which is something Excel can't do right now.

Yeah LibreOffice is like the AMD of Office Suites. For many people, "good enough" gets the job done. Some small businesses and government agencies (especially in Europe) don't like making Microsoft so rich for their office suite -- and have jumped to Libre. Libre is rough around the edges, but it has matured into a pretty usable offering.

 

[DrMrLordX]

With Intel rolling out all the Gen8 and Gen9 iGPUs out there, MS has got to be looking at OpenCL 2.0 acceleration of stuff like Excel. Talk about a killer app. LibreOffice proved it could be done, so why not let MS do it "right"?

 

[cyrusfox]

We need Some Ryzen benches to show the IPC gain. AMD has been at the bottom for excel crunching for awhile, would be great to see those numbers as I contemplate an upgrade. Would love to see this benchmark get resurrected as it is still super accurate for excel workloads.

 

[Burpo]

Another necro of this thread? Someone should really lock these old threads..

 

[cyrusfox]

Another necro of this thread? Someone should really lock these old threads..

You show me anywhere where I can get a solid baseline comparison of single core IPC, this excel test is relevant as that is exactly what it shows(clock for clock). Looking for Ryzen IPC comparisons, few and far between, this has also been asked on hardforum.

 

[Crono]

You show me anywhere where I can get a solid baseline comparison of single core IPC, this excel test is relevant as that is exactly what it shows(clock for clock). Looking for Ryzen IPC comparisons, few and far between, this has also been asked on hardforum.

OP's link isn't even valid anymore.

 

[John Tauwhare]

Still alive. I just finished rebuilding my Dell XPS710 rig replacing the 2700K with a 7700K and have completed CPU stress testing. The 7700 is a very solid cool running chip. Fastest run in the Excel benchmark at 5.2G 1.400V is 17.31. That's a 23% IPC improvement over the Sandy.

 

[Zstream]

Your macro is heavily single threaded and you're calculating one sheet at a time. It's really a bad testing macro if you ask me. Using Application.Calculate on your worksheets will improve the multi-thread performance.