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of idle-active transitions in the cores. Since current OSs determine dynamic adaption<br />

levels using core activity level, the replication of these user interactions in the benchmark<br />

is critical. For comparison, Figure 7.3 shows average active core residencies of a six-<br />

core AMD Phenom 2 processor across a wide range of desktop workloads. <strong>The</strong> left-hand<br />

side of the figure illustrates the problem with many popular benchmark applications. <strong>The</strong><br />

benchmarks spend nearly 100% of the time with all cores active. From an idle power<br />

management perspective little can be done to improve per<strong>for</strong>mance and power efficiency.<br />

<strong>The</strong> center and right-hand side workloads are more challenging <strong>for</strong> idle power<br />

management due to the frequent occurrence of idle phases. <strong>The</strong> SYSmark subtests are the<br />

most challenging due to their large composition of interspersed idle and active phases.<br />

Table 7.1: SYSmark 2007 Components<br />

E-Learning Video Creation Productivity 3D<br />

Adobe<br />

- Illustrator<br />

- Photoshop<br />

-Flash<br />

Microsoft<br />

- PowerPoint<br />

Adobe<br />

- After Effects<br />

- Illustrator<br />

- Photoshop<br />

Microsoft<br />

- Media Encoder<br />

Sony<br />

- Vegas<br />

Microsoft<br />

- Excel<br />

- Outlook<br />

- Word<br />

- PowerPoint<br />

- Project<br />

Corel<br />

- WinZip<br />

127<br />

Autodesk<br />

- 3Ds Max<br />

Google<br />

- SketchUp<br />

Per<strong>for</strong>mance Loss <strong>for</strong> Vista Reactive Power Management [4]<br />

8.8% 6.2% 9.5% 5.9%

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