I have developed a benchmark in VBA which can test the performance of various CPUs in Microsoft Excel.
The benchmark is about estimating the value of Pi by using Monte Carlo simulation. My program generates 35,000,000 points which fall randomly on a unit square. Then we determine how many points are in the unit circle. The estimated value of Pi is simply four times the number of points on unit circle divided by the total number of points.
I am looking forward to benchmarks of the latest CPUs. Please share the results in this thread and these valuable information will help us decide whether it is worth upgrading our existing computers.