VPS CPU benchmark

drboyd · November 2011

Does anyone know of a simple CPU benchmark that has comparative output?

As in, you run it, and it says something like "Your CPU performs like a x.xxGhx single core processor", or something like that.

(Either that, or outputs a number than can be looked up in a chart to get the same information)

I was going to write one, but figured that must have been written 1000 times over by others already.

DanielM · November 2011

Nah but geekbench is good

dmmcintyre3 · November 2011

You can't compare processors based on clock speed alone unless they are basically the same CPU other than clock speed.

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/514622
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/508599
The 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo (with 1 core disabled for the test) benchmarks better than the 3.06GHz Pentium 4 even with more stuff running at the time of the test.

drmike · November 2011

We have a thread about geekbench if you're interested:

http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/213/geekbench-2.2/p1

drboyd · November 2011

Thanks gents, I appreciate it!

Putting it into "comparative" terms is just a lot nicer than "This CPU scores 8.93" and having to compare it to a chart of other CPUs and their scores. Doing lookups and calculations are what computers are good at after all.

Something like:

"This processor performs the same as a 0.74Ghz single core on an Intel I7"
or
"This processor performs like a 0.89Ghz Pentium 4"
or
"This processor performs like 1.27Ghz single core AMD Phenom"
or something similar.

Preferably a processor that's pretty common, as something like:

"This processor performs like a 37.13Ghz Hitachi H8086"

would probably not make a lot of sense to most people lol.