Brad’s PC CPU benchmarks

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It’s amazing how fast PCs continue to get. Whenever I get a new PC these days, I try to benchmark it to see how it rates.

For my benchmarking purposes, I use: Performance Test CPU test. I name my desktop PC’s “frogs” with the year I got them and the laptops “Turtles”.

I’m a little bummed that Performance Test 7.0 scores don’t correspond with 6.1 since I have a bunch of historic benchmarks with 6.1…

 

Frog 2003: Decent Dell box with a P4 running at 2.8Ghz. CPU score: 516.

Turtle 2008: Thinkpad T400 laptop with T9600 CPU. CPU score: 1901

Actual Results

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Thinkpad T400, state of the art 2008 laptop. T9600 CPU. Score 1901.

 

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Frog 2003, decent Dell box with a Pentium IV CPU at 2.8Ghz. Score 516.6

 

 

Commentary

So in the scope of 5 years, a decent laptop has quadrupled its CPU advantage over a 5 year old desktop PC.

More to come…

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Dell studio XPS435MT Intel core i7CPU at 2.67ghz. Score 1934.8

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

So I ran that test and got a 1500... I didn't run the CD drive benchmark though. Could that really skew the test that much?

 

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I didn't run the CD drive benchmark though

Nor did I...

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I'm not using the passmark rating but rather the CPU mark.

So your machine is about twice as fast as my laptop.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Skinhit, reply 1
Dell studio XPS435MT Intel core i7CPU at 2.67ghz. Score 1934.8

What was your CPU mark score?

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Shana (my laptop Turion x2)  CPU 1085.4

Ruriruri II (my desktop Phenom II) 3011.5

 

With PCWizard 2008

Shana 13228.98

Ruriruri II 570175.4

 

The laptop is 2 years old, and the Desktop was built right after the Phenom IIs came out.

 

-Gabe

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 CPU mark was 6280.2

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

On the Cpu bit I scored 6712.9  Dunno whether thats good or bad .. but there ya go !

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Overall score 1001.8

CPU Mark 1955.9

Would have thought my overall performance would have been better, being it's a relatively new rig, 12 -14 months, but oh well, it does all that I need it to for now.

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

Desktop - 2yrs old

Abit AN9 32X Fatal1ty 590 chipset, AMD 6400+ X2 stock 3.2Ghz, OCZ Reaper stock 800Mhz 3-4-4-12 1T, 8800GTS 320MB, WD 150G Raptor X2 Raid 0, WD 250G storage, PCP&C 750

overall 1052.1

CPU mark 1704.2

 

Laptop - new, 2 weeks old

built by local shop GeekBox Computers.

mainboard COMPAL JHL90 Intel PM45 chipset 1066FSB, Intel C2D P8600 2.4Ghz 1066 FSB, nVidia 9600M GT 512MB, 4G (2x2G) Muskin 800Mhz 5-5-5-18 2T,WD 320MB 7200RPM

overall 942.1

CPU mark 1999.6

 

 

 

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Here is the ole Vista computer I regularly use... not much but good for desktop workings.

 

With my specs for the CPU by both the test and Intel for temps and voltages.

 

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My Vaio laptop 128 Gb SSD running Vista Ultimate 32, 4 Gb RAM - (I know) with eBoostr 4 Gb NTFS Formatted scores 1914.5.

Lesser important programs and data on 500 Gb regular disc.

 

Performance test CPU

Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

How weird, whatever these values mean...

PassMark Rating
    This Computer    810.8

CPU Mark
    This Computer    1420.2

2D Graphics Mark
    This Computer    373.4

3D Graphics Mark
    This Computer    234.8

Memory Mark
    This Computer    600.8

Disk Mark
    This Computer    532.0

CD Mark
    This Computer    386.3

Must be the Ge-Force 8600GS and directX-10! :'(

 

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

It’s amazing how fast PCs continue to get. Whenever I get a new PC these days, I try to benchmark it to see how it rates.

 

I have no new PC to test... only my almost 3 year old ( in November ) Supermicro with Intel X5355 at 2.66 Ghz...

 

Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top

A paultry 2.2k score from a 6750 OC'd to 3.6ghz. :(

Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top

Toshiba M100 Satellite 2006: Old laptop with an Intel T2300 running at 1.66Ghz. CPU score: 890.9

Toshiba NB100 2009: New netbook with an Intel Atom N270 running at 1.60Ghz. CPU score: 320.0


Acer Aspire One 2009: New netbook with an Intel Atom N270 running at 1.60Ghz. CPU score: 318.4

 

Results of the two netbooks were overall nearly identical across all benchmarks. I was a little shocked to see how they compared to Brad's Pentium IV at 2.6Ghz.




Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top

Amd Athlon 64 X2 dual core 2.86 ghz 3gb of ram 32bit vista (whish I had 64 bit, I would have 6gb of ram) 256mb nividea geforce 8600 GT built November of 2007

main score 848.8

cpu benchmark 1575.9

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Nice!

Reply #19 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

AMD Phenom9950 BE 2.6Ghz

Reply #20 from Sins Forums Top

Heres my hardware and my test results. Custom built machine, cherry picked components, gaming oriented. Have to say tho, the software doesnt see my hardware correctly, ram speed, cpu multi n fsb are all off. maybe the results are scewed. OS is Vista x64 and used the x64 version

Cpu: Q9550 E0, overclocked to 4.02ghz.

Ram: 4gig (2x2gig sticks) Corsair Dominator pc8500 @ 942mhz CAS 4.

Motherboard: Asus Rampage Formula x48.

Gpu: ATI 4870 1gig @ 850 core clock, 950 memory.

HDD: 640gig sata.

PSU: Corsair TX750w

Benchmark Results

Test Name: SkyNet
CPU - Integer Math: 2452.2
CPU - Floating Point Math: 3731.3
CPU - Find Prime Numbers: 1422.4
CPU - SSE: 18.2
CPU - Compression: 8719.6
CPU - Encryption: 25.0
CPU - Physics: 420.8
CPU - String Sorting: 4227.6
Graphics 3D - Simple: 814.4
Graphics 3D - Medium: 440.8
Graphics 3D - Complex: 82.7
Graphics 3D - DirectX 10: 22.3
CPU Mark: 6878.9

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hehe, after upgrading my rig with a AMD Phenom II x4 920, another 2 gigs of DDR800 RAM and a Galaxy 9800GT, my scores have improved some since last time...

Passmark Rating: 1424.6.

CPU Mark: 3519.9

I would have gone with a Phenom II 940, but they're as rare as hens teeth locally and prices have risen sharply, so the 920 was the best I could afford... being I needed a new PSU and graphics cards as well.

The ideal upgrade would have been an i7 with 12gb of DDR3 RAM and a nVidia GTX295... but that would have been around the AUD$3000+ mark with new mobo as well.

Oh well... next time. :-"