SuperPi Old vs Modern CPU

[pugheaven]

Was just wondering what the modern CPU's give in results compaired to older CPU with this good old benchmarking tool. Not done in it years since my previous gen CPU's. You can find it here. I know it's old school but it's always been consistant with its numbers whenever I upgraded my main rig.

So, I've just ran this benchmark using the 1M million test and got 8.412s... just wondering what others with more modern CPU's achieve nowadays? Are we now looking below 5 seconds?

Be nice to see even though this is an old benhcmark tool. I've just got my hands on a 2nd hand I7-3970 Extreme which I'll be fitting later next week so thought I better get some benchmarks now and compare. Then it got me thinking about these super fast machines a lot of you guys are running now and how they compare in things like this?

 

[Steven Rimmington]

It uses 9% of my Ryzen 3600? What does it test lol.

 

[BongoHunter]

It uses 9% of my Ryzen 3600? What does it test lol.

I think it's floating point perf? Been years since I use it tbh!

@OP Will try on a few CPUs later - probably have screenshots from my old i5-750 as well to compare to if I can find the right backup...

 

[pugheaven]

It uses 9% of my Ryzen 3600? What does it test lol.

I quite like it because it on is a single threaded test so, rather than just throwing 12/16/32 cores at something to see how fast something is overall, I believe (and this is just me), it kinda shows performance of a single core i.e. more around the architecture and raw speed and would show just how we've evolved over the last decade ish. All the test does is measure the time it takes to calculate Pi to a certain number of digits, in the case above I did it to 1 Million. What I'd like to see is, with one core, how far have we really come on as at the moment, my CPU is 9 years old give or take, and it's running everything in 4k with my GPU, granted we all know games atre GPU biased, however, I've never owned a processor this long that is still kicking away now and doesn't really need replacing which is very unusual. a lot of people are still rocking the original I5 and I7's just showing how great they were in the first place.

@Steven Rimmington - What did you get with that Ryzen?

The only reason I've just picked up the I7-3970x is simply as it was £80, will switch over and if I can run at the same speed here, I get 50% more cores and if one of the chips goes, at least I have a cheap way or just switching the CPU's out instead of possibly having to replace CPU/Board/Memory.

 

[Steven Rimmington]

I see although it does not max one core?

 

[BongoHunter]

About Super PI
Super PI is a single threaded benchmark that calculates pi to a specific number of digits. It uses the Gauss-Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of a program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.

Threading
Super PI is a single threaded benchmark ideal for testing pure, single threaded x86 floating point performance and while most of the computing market has shifted towards multithreaded applications and more modern instruction sets, Super PI still remains quite indicative of CPU capability in specific applications such as computer gaming.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

Think I tried it when first installed my 3900x out of curiosity
But it was way way slower than my old 2600k at 5ghz lol
So not sure it's a test that works well with newer ryzen cpus
But yeah long time ago I remember finally having a cpu that cracked the 10 seconds
For 1M lol