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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%