Benchmarks?

[Muel]

Hey, just wondering what kind of benchmarks everyone runs? I've only ever used SuperPi and 3Dmark06?

I want something that's more of a proper benchmark for comparing AMD and Intel, SuperPi is terribly Intel favouring. I have a stock E5300 here that completes it in just over 21 seconds, and my 965BE at stock does it in just under 21 seconds.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Here's a few:

Benchmarks

Futuremark - for 3dmark vantage - http://www.futuremark.com/
FRAPS - for realtime video capture and benchmarking - http://www.fraps.com/
CineBENCH by maxon - http://www.maxon.net/index.php?id=162&L=0
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat benchmark - http://cop.stalker-game.com/?page=benchmark
Crysis benchmark - http://www.crymod.com/filebase.php?fileid=280
Far Cry benchmark - http://www.farcry2-hq.com/news,483,f...s-overview.htm
PassMark benchmark - http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

but I know there are others but I tend to use FRAPS on a real time game before and then again after the upgrade to compare realised performance yields. Fallout3 for example.

 

[egnshane]

A benchmark doesn't always tell a great deal like you have found, but a lot run 3Dmark Vantage

 

[PaulyD]

Everest Cache and memory benchmark is one I run to check memory performance and latency.

Otherwise Superpi, wprime, 3dmark's and the ones to do really.

Also, Cinebench mentioned above is a good CPU benchmark too

 

[Muel]

Cheers guys, lots to choose from.

I tend to run fraps a fair bit, I would run 3Dmark Vantage but I think you can only do one run on the trial? So I've just stuck with 3Dmark06.

I fancy trying FarCry 2 anyway, so I could use that benchmark easily enough.

There's that chess based one too that I've used in the past, seemed to be a better benchmark for comparing AMD and Intel than SuperPi. I'll look up wprime too, cheers all!

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Problem with synthetic benchmarks they don't really give you a real reflection of your upgrade. If you play games then that's were you want to see the the benefit.

Take Fallout 3 for example. My old 8800GTX struggled during heavy gun fire. Fraps showed me a min frame rate of 2fps during a particular scene which I saved. After upgrading to my ATI 5870, the same scene was playable and Fraps reported a decent min play rate. You can see the full results in here to give you an idea what how benchmarks can be used:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18157918&highlight=startername_admiral+huddy

 

[Muel]

I'm just interested really, never done any serious benching.

As you can see from my Crysis benchmark results, it'll do for now.

I'll add another 5830 at some point, but as yet I've never felt the need for one. Just got to hope I can find one cheap enough in a year or so, OCUK have already sold their stock and I doubt they'll be getting more in with the 6*** series on the way.