Benchmarks - help please

[jpod]

My question is when you're looking at i5 gaming performance at regular resolutions e.g. 1900x1200, or i7/higher resolutions what benchmarks are meaning full indicators of 'real life' performance.

This is to help interpret say Anandtech Bench
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2

Or Toms hardware type figures when comparing CPU's and GPU's
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/

What do you recommend to benchmark your own rig? 3dMark?

Ta pod

 

[jpod]

Erm, not really sure what you're asking

Lol, thanks for the reply. What I mean is do you look at the following in relation to GFX performance
DirectX 10
DirectX11
GPU compute
Tesselation
DirectX 9
3d mark
And so on
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What are the more meaningful benchmarks for me as a noob to look at?!

Does that make more sense?

 

[jpod]

Okay

For "real life" performance..im not sure what your asking considering most PCs don't even have a graphics card, for 99% of reall life day today operations of a PC a £20 GPU or onboard will be fine.

I mean a huge gaming bias by 'real life', graphics prowess and how you interpret benchmarks and benchmark your rig.

Thanks so far.

 

[jpod]

What do you recommend to benchmark your own rig? 3dMark?