# CPU Benchmark Competition **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 13, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364 "2005-09-13T00:49:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/1 "2005-09-13T00:49:05Z")
My computer isn’t any beast by any stretch of the imagination, but I thought that it’d be interesting to do this. I found a program [here](http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html) called CrystalMark 2004. I used it on my computer and got a score of 37301. I’ll try again later, when I’m not encoding a multigig video file, but it’s gonna take a while on my computer. Take the test, guys! I demand it! ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/2 "2005-09-13T01:13:16Z")
I got a 30451 but I was still browsing the Dope while I was doing it. Not sure that affects it. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/3 "2005-09-13T01:39:31Z")
1. If I had any kind of decent video card in here, it would’ve been better. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/4 "2005-09-13T02:14:58Z")
1. P4 2.8 Ghz, ATI 9200SE Nowhere near a ‘fast box’ by today’s standards. I’ll have to try one of the DL380 servers at the office tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/5 "2005-09-13T02:37:01Z")
1. P4 3.0GHz, 1Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce FX5200. I didn’t know what any of the scores actually meant. I guess my computer’s not especially fast by today’s standards, especially in terms of things like the video card, but it’s fine for what i need. ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/6 "2005-09-13T02:42:27Z")
- - - I got 62083. It was looking pretty dismal until I did the last OpenGL test tho’. ~ ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/7 "2005-09-13T02:50:50Z")
> [@DougC](#): > > - > - > - I got 62083. It was looking pretty dismal until I did the last OpenGL test tho’. > ~ So what’s your video card then? ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/8 "2005-09-13T03:33:24Z")
- - - Specs is Athlon-64/3000 939 w/1 Gb RAM, WinXP on a 10K Raptor hard drive, videocard is ATI X800XT. The OpenGL score was like 22,000. ~ ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/9 "2005-09-13T03:45:40Z")
Better than I thought. I got myself a 47163. Currently in my machine is an Athlon XP 3200+, and a GeForce FX 128 MB 5900 XT. Only 768 MB of RAM. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/10 "2005-09-13T03:50:19Z")
Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop (Pentium-M 1.6 GHz, 1GB RAM): 49042 Dell Precision 450 desktop (dual Xeon 2.4 GHz, 1GB RAM): 60463 OpenGL and GDI tests are better on the laptop. Other scores are much better on the desktop. Not sure if the benchmark is multithreaded (able to take advantage of dual processors) - I’d guess not. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/11 "2005-09-13T04:06:59Z")
My score is 70306. Athlon XP 3000+ with 1GB Corsair PC3200 TwinX RAM. Video card is an ATI Radeon X700 with 256 MB. OpenGL score was 26555. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/12 "2005-09-13T04:08:28Z")
1. A winner is me! Specs: Win XP, AMD 64 3k+ (939), Radeon X800 XL PCI-E (256 Mb RAM), 1 GB RAM, Asus A8N-SLI Motherboard It’s a gaming machine though so I should hope it would perform well. 4.7 billion lines before my system clunked, I was impressed. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/13 "2005-09-13T04:15:24Z")
Oh. OGL was 28k+. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/14 "2005-09-13T04:27:48Z")
WooHoo!!! I get the _Lowest_ score prize! 1. Then again, I’ve had this PC for 5 years. And it was slow when I bought it. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/15 "2005-09-13T05:02:12Z")
Well, I _promise_ that I’ll do it tomorrow, and try to get a higher score. I still doubt that with a Sempron 3000+ and a GeForce 5500 I’ll get any higher than you guys. But at least my computer isn’t totally bottom-of-barrel. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/16 "2005-09-13T13:52:14Z")
This morning I got a score of 43016. (You guys suck… my OGL score was 4611.) ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/17 "2005-09-13T14:31:43Z")
37887 for me, with some stuff running in the background but nothing crippling. Sounds about right, given that I’m running a three and a half year old P4 2.2 with only 512 MB of RAM and 128 MB on my nVidia GeForce 4200. (And to think I call myself a gamer.) ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/18 "2005-09-13T15:48:44Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > This morning I got a score of 43016. (You guys suck… my OGL score was 4611.) 56,240 total. D2D and GDI were my weak points, but my OpenGL score was 14,349. It’s a Pentium 4 3.0GHz with 1G RAM and an ATI Radeon X300. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/19 "2005-09-13T16:04:48Z")
1. P4, 2.4 GHz, 512 MB DDR RAM, NVIDIA GeForce MX 400 video card w/ 64 MB RAM. The two lowest numbers were 2905 for D2D and 1203 for OGL, but I haven’t the faintest idea what any of that means. So, is my computer hurtin’? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/20 "2005-09-13T16:32:38Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > 1. > > P4, 2.4 GHz, 512 MB DDR RAM, NVIDIA GeForce MX 400 video card w/ 64 MB RAM. > > The two lowest numbers were 2905 for D2D and 1203 for OGL, but I haven’t the faintest idea what any of that means. So, is my computer hurtin’? I’m not sure about D2D, but OGL is Open GL, a method to render graphics. Given that you haver a GeForce MX (which, BTW, makes the baby Jesus cry) it’s no suprise that the OGL score is low. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364.md?page=2)