Benchmarking, otherwise known as "How big is your computer's dangly parts."

[Higlac]

Is anybody else interested in computer benchmarking? I've been messing about with it lately, and I'm curious about how my computer compares to other dotnetters' rigs.

I've used SiSoft Sandra to get actual numbers from the processor and GPU. I still don't understand what most of them mean, but the tagline "higher scores are better" helps me a little bit. I used the processor arithmetic and video rendering tests in the benchmarking tab.

I've also used PCMark Vantage. You'll have to get a trial key for one run, but it'll give you a independent score from a third party.

For image rendering, there's a free version of 3DMark Vantage. It's a basic edition, you can't adjust the settings of the test, but again, it'll give you a score.

Also, as a word of warning, this will put stress on your system, if you aren't comfortable with your cooling solution, I wouldn't recommend the CPU tests. Check out Prime95 and Core Temp if you want to double-check your cooling. Prime95 is a stress test that will bring out any instabilities in your system. Basically it does lots of math to heat up your system, and make sure that nothing is giving math errors, it won't tell you what is giving those errors though. Core Temp merely gives you information relating to how hot your CPU is. Generally, if you can keep the temps below 100C, then your cooling is probably sufficient. It depends on the manufacturer, and many will shut down before overheating too much.

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

Sandra Score

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Processor

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Benchmark Results
Aggregate Arithmetic Performance : 86.72GOPS
Dhrystone iSSE4.2 : 114.25GIPS
Whetstone iSSE3 : 65.82GFLOPS
Results Interpretation : Higher scores are better.

Windows Experience Index
Current Processor(s) : 7.7
Results Interpretation : Higher scores are better.

Performance vs. Speed
Aggregate Arithmetic Performance : 18.89MOPS/MHz
Dhrystone iSSE4.2 : 24.89MIPS/MHz
Whetstone iSSE3 : 14.34MFLOPS/MHz
Results Interpretation : Higher scores are better.

Performance vs. Power
Processor(s) Power : 95.000W
Aggregate Arithmetic Performance : 912.85MOPS/W
Dhrystone iSSE4.2 : 1202.66MIPS/W
Whetstone iSSE3 : 692.87MFLOPS/W
Results Interpretation : Higher scores are better.

Performance Test Status
Result ID : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4C 4.59GHz Turbo, 4.6GHz IMC, 2x 256kB L2, 6MB L3)
Computer : ASRock P67 Extreme4
Platform Compliance : x64
NUMA Support : No
SMP (Multi-Processor) Benchmark : Yes
Total Test Threads : 4
Multi-Core Test : Yes
Cores per Processor : 4
SMT (Multi-Threaded) Benchmark : No
Processor Affinity : P0C0T0 P0C1T0 P0C2T0 P0C3T0
System Timer : 3.22MHz
Number of Runs : 64000 / 640

Processor
Model : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
Speed : 4.59GHz
Peak Processing Performance (PPP) : 73.44GFLOPS
Adjusted Peak Performance (APP) : 22WG
Cores per Processor : 4 Unit(s)
Threads per Core : 1 Unit(s)
Type : Quad-Core
Integrated Data Cache : 2x 32kB, Synchronous, Write-Thru, 8-way, 64 byte line size, 2 threads sharing
L2 Cache : 2x 256kB, ECC, Synchronous, ATC, 8-way, 64 byte line size, 2 threads sharing
L3 Cache : 6MB, ECC, Synchronous, ATC, 12-way, Exclusive, 64 byte line size, 16 threads sharing

Memory Controller
Integrated in Processor : Yes
Speed : 4.6GHz

Features
SSE Technology : Yes
SSE2 Technology : Yes
SSE3 Technology : Yes
Supplemental SSE3 Technology : Yes
SSE4.1 Technology : Yes
SSE4.2 Technology : Yes
AVX - Advanced Vector eXtensions : Yes
FMA3 - Fused Multiply/Add eXtensions : No
SSE4A Technology : No
FMA4 - 4 Operand Fused Multiply/Add eXtensions : No
HTT - Hyper-Threading Technology : No

GPU

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Benchmark Results
Aggregate Shader Performance : 150.43MPix/s
Native Float Shaders : 364.57MPix/s
Native Double Shaders : 62MPix/s
Type : D3D11 SM5.0
Results Interpretation : Higher scores are better.

Benchmark Results
Aggregate Shader Performance : 58.5GFLOPS
Native Float Shaders : 141.76GFLOPS
Native Double Shaders : 24.14GFLOPS
Results Interpretation : Higher scores are better.

Windows Experience Index
3D Graphics Performance : 7.6
Results Interpretation : Higher scores are better.

Performance vs. Speed
Aggregate Shader Performance : 104.46kPix/s/MHz
Native Float Shaders : 253.17kPix/s/MHz
Native Double Shaders : 43.10kPix/s/MHz
Results Interpretation : Higher scores are better.

Performance vs. Power
Device(s) Power : 150.000W
Aggregate Shader Performance : 1002.84kPix/s/W
Native Float Shaders : 2430.47kPix/s/W
Native Double Shaders : 413.79kPix/s/W
Results Interpretation : Higher scores are better.

Capacity vs. Power
Unit Count : 2.24Unit Count/W
Results Interpretation : Higher scores are better.

Performance Test Status
Result ID : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (336 SM5.0 1.44GHz 6% OC, 1GB 3.6GHz, PCIe 2.00 x16)
Computer : ASRock P67 Extreme4
Platform Compliance : x64
SMP (Multi-Processor) Benchmark : No
Total Test Threads : 1
System Timer : 3.22MHz
Rendered Image Size : 1920x1080

Video Adapter
Model : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Driver Version : 8.17.12.9036
Chipset : NVC4
Speed : 720MHz
OverClock Factor : 6%
Shader Speed : 1.44GHz
OverClock Factor : 6%
Peak Processing Performance (PPP) : 967.68GFLOPS
Adjusted Peak Performance (APP) : 871WG
Unified Shaders : 336 Unit(s)
Cores per Processor : 7 Unit(s)
Raster Operation Units (ROP) : 32 Unit(s)
Texture Mapping Units (TMU) : 56 Unit(s)
Maximum Pixel Fillrate : 23GPix/s
Maximum Texture Fillrate : 40.32GTex/s

Logical/Chipset Memory Banks
Total Memory : 1GB
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 1.8GHz (3.6GHz)

Bus
Type : PCIe 2.00 x16 5Gbps
Maximum Bus Bandwidth : 7.81GB/s

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PCMark Score

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3DMark Score

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Intel i5 2500K @ 4.6GHz turbo
8 GB ram @ 1866
ASRock p67 Extreme4
Nvidia GeForce GTX 460
Corsair 750W power supply
Cooler Master Hyper 212+
Cooler Master Storm Sniper
Assorted optical and disc drives

 

[Krynn72]

I'll post mine when I get my motherboard back (had to RMA it).

Intel i5 2400k 3.4Ghz (I don't bother overclocking, I need stability more than marginal performance increases)
12Gb DDR3 3200
Geforce 560 2Gb vRAM
Thermaltake 850watt PSU
CoolerMaster HAF
Six ****ing hard drives that always give me shit.
Badass bluray drive.

I need to remember to steal some Arctic silver from work. I forgot to buy some with it, and the themal paste that came pre-applied to the heatsink looks like junk.

 

[Bakurei]

Finally decided to upgrade (for Diablo 3 lulz), I'll post some results when the new computer arrives. I'll also try to benchmark this old one, so people looking for an upgrade from an ~3-year-old computer can see how they differ.

The old one is:
Intel E8500 @ 4.1GHz
4GB DDR2 ~900
MSI Neo(something)
Ati 4870 512MB

And the new one:
Intel i7 2700k
16GB DDR3 1600
Asus something LE
Ati 7970 3GB

 

[Higlac]

That looks like a nice build, but is the extra $50 really worth it for the 100 MHz?

 

[Bakurei]

That looks like a nice build, but is the extra $50 really worth it for the 100 MHz?

You mean the 2700k? In the shop I bought the CPU (tray version) from 2600k was only 2€ cheaper than 2700k, no idea why.

 

[Krynn72]

Funny this was just bumped, had it open last night trying to get scores for my new setup. 3dmark keeps making my computer reboot just before the test actually starts though. It's got to be a software issue though since I was monitoring all the temperatures and none of them even came close to over heating, and civ5 runs great in dx11 mode with no temp problems at all.

 

[Bakurei]

Funny this was just bumped, had it open last night trying to get scores for my new setup. 3dmark keeps making my computer reboot just before the test actually starts though. It's got to be a software issue though since I was monitoring all the temperatures and none of them even came close to over heating, and civ5 runs great in dx11 mode with no temp problems at all.

I'm having troubles with the 3DMark Vantage as well... I just get a black screen and have to reboot. The Futuremark forums had something about it, bug I guess.

PCMark wants a trial key and then forwards to a webpage and then I lost intrest. SiSoft looked like a virus

I just ran the Heaven benchmark:
FPS: 30.6
Scores: 770
Min FPS: 18.7
Max FPS: 59.0

 

[Higlac]

SiSoft isn't a virus, just get it from here: http://downloads.guru3d.com/Sandra-2012-download-2056.html

 

[Krynn72]

I just ran the Heaven benchmark:
FPS: 30.6
Scores: 770
Min FPS: 18.7
Max FPS: 59.0

What were your settings?
My results were kind of disappointing, but holy shit it looked good.

 

[Bakurei]

Render: direct3d10
Mode: 1920x1080 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Tessellation: disabled

And I do know SiSoft is not a virus. The UI looked damn awful so I just gave up.

 

[NeptuneUK]

GTX 570 SLI, Phenom II hex @ 3.6ghz, 2x4gb ripjawx ram DDR3

3DMark11 : was 5766 with one GTX 570, and 9024 with SLI.

My CPU might be bottlenecking.
Checking out these 'Sandra' and 'Heaven' thingies now.

 

[NeptuneUK]

Heaven benchmark using Bakurei's settings:

Using Krynn's settings, but alas at 1920x1080 instead of 1200 res
The DX11 one looked miles better than the DX10 version. Pleasantly suprised with the performance.

Intel i5 2400k 3.4Ghz
12Gb DDR3 3200
Geforce 560 2Gb vRAM
Thermaltake 850watt PSU
CoolerMaster HAF
Six ****ing hard drives that always give me shit.
Badass bluray drive.

Lol

 

[Krynn72]

God damn, why did yours do so much better?

 

[NeptuneUK]

I have two 570s?

It's ok though, my e-peen is deflating thanks to my comparibly low 3dmark vantage results:
3Dmark red flagged it and said: YOUR PC IS SHIT. Or at least that's how I read it. I seem to do better on DX11 benchmarks anyway, must be part of the gtx 500 architecture

http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3817278
3DMark Score
26162 3DMarks
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Graphics Score
30022
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CPU Score
18880
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Jane Nash
83.52 FPS
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New Calico
92.51 FPS
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AI Test
2440 operations/s
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Physics Test
29 operations/s

 

[Krynn72]

Ah, I missed the SLI bit.

 

[NeptuneUK]

My computers bits = officially dangled.

 

[Unfocused]

Which AA setting are you guys using for Heaven? There's no mention of this in the results screenshot.

 

[Laivasse]

AA settings show up in the 'Mode' field along with resolution unless AA is off, in which case it isn't mentioned.

I don't really like stressing out my precious parts with benchmarks, but I happened to have a Heaven bench result saved on my comp from a couple of months back, so here it is. My rig's almost identical to Neptune's apart from an [email protected]. However I had AA turned right up on the Heaven benches to really make the cards creak.



Your 3dMark11 score looks standard for your rig, at least, Nep. My cpu gives me just under 1000 points on top of yours (so slightly under 10k).

 

[NeptuneUK]

Just did a run with your settings. I'm quite happy with my PC. There was a minor discrepancy where the first FPS rate the benchmark started at was 8.9 for some reason :S

GTX 570 SL-HI five!

 

[Bakurei]

So I ran fraps while playing BF3 and Dota2 and here's the results:

The values are in order min/max/avg [fps]

BF3 MP:
11 105 40

Dota2:
30 62 58

The results were gained by running the fps recording n times for 5 minutes at a time and then taking the mean value of all results. Dota2 was run in 4*5min segments and BF3 in 3*5min.

BF3 settings were 1080p and everything at low. The BF3 results don't really tell the whole story, when you die the fps spikes through the roof. In reality it's barely playable. The Dota2 results on the other hand feel accurate. I'll post the settings later but if I remember correctly I have everything set to low/disabled.

 

[Higlac]

So I downloaded that Heaven benchmark, and it is very pretty, though my single GTX 460 doesn't like it very much.

 

[Bakurei]

Edit: delete, browser going mad :E

 

[Bakurei]

I ran the test with the new setup and got:

FPS: 31.4
Scores: 791
Min FPS: 8.6
Max FPS: 69.7

With everything maxed, 8*aa and 16*af.

Got to try BF3 now. After that I'll probably try overclocking a bit.

Edit: Just tried BF3, everything on ultra, 4xAA, 16xAF and it runs so damn smooth... *drool*

Edit: 3Dmark Vantage: http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3887829

Edit: 3DMark11 with a bit of OC http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2747932

The 7970 overclocks like a beast. Without raising the voltages you get like 20% higher clocks, sick. Need to work on the CPU now. Early tests show it'll go 5GHz.