Other applications

Sphinx speech recognition
Ricky Houghton first brought us the Sphinx benchmark through his association with speech recognition efforts at Carnegie Mellon University. Sphinx is a high-quality speech recognition routine. We use two different versions, built with two different compilers, in an attempt to ensure we're getting the best possible performance.

The Core 2 Extreme busts out a new record in Sphinx, needing only about 30% of its power to run this high-quality speech recognition routine in real time.

WinZip

Nero

WinZip is another impressive victory for the Core 2 CPUs, while the field is very tight (and probably largely I/O bound) in the Nero test.