# 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:** 2
**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, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/21 "2005-09-13T16:45:27Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Given that you haver a GeForce MX (which, BTW, makes the baby Jesus cry) it’s no suprise that the OGL score is low. That’s the video capture card that came with my video recording package. I do audio with my computer and not much else, so astounding graphics rendering is not even on my list of requirements. ---
**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, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/22 "2005-09-13T17:01:46Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > 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. I’m assuming D2D is DirectDraw, wedged as it is between GDI and OpenGL. ---
**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, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/23 "2005-09-13T17:06:25Z")
68559 for my DL380 server (all four processing units are utilized) With a Low score for OGL of 562! The ALU and FPU scores were ROCKIN! Combined they were higher than my total for my computer listed above. So what high-scores you’all are gettin’ due to graphics card, I whup ya good in number crunching. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/24 "2005-09-13T17:44:17Z")
Mark 94034 ALU 9742 FPU 10561 MEM 8768 HDD 7310 GDI 16856 D2D 11187 OGL 29610 This is a Athlon 64 3500+ OC’d to 2585 (235X11), 1 GIG of OCZ PC-3200, ATI Radeon X800XTPE and it’s OC’d some, too (don’t remember how much) and a 10K RPM 72Gb WD SATA Raptor on a MSI K8N Neo 2. I built this rig last year about Thanksgiving, been a dandy. ---
**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, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/25 "2005-09-13T18:17:35Z")
Just goes to show there’s lies, damn lies, and statistics. While some of you are just walking all OVER us in total score based on video performance, My server’s turning: ALU 23168 FPU 24711 MEM 7466 HDD 9463 (RAID5 Ultra SCSI) So there’s a lotta apples and kumquat comparing going on here. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/26 "2005-09-13T19:15:08Z")
I got a whopping 22,227 on the work machine. P4 2Ghz, 30gigHD and 256MRam Got a 0 on the OGL score. Ouch. I’ll try in on the new Gateway at home. I expect slightly higher marks. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/27 "2005-09-13T19:29:02Z")
> [@Unintentionally Blank](#): > > Just goes to show there’s lies, damn lies, and statistics. > > While some of you are just walking all OVER us in total score based on video performance, My server’s turning: > > ALU 23168 > FPU 24711 > MEM 7466 > HDD 9463 (RAID5 Ultra SCSI) > > So there’s a lotta apples and kumquat comparing going on here. What processor(s) is you server based on? It’s smokin’, that RAID 5 is killing the Raptor. I’m tempted to slap a different video card in. Seems like OGL is a stumbling block for this test (and the test does seem to be weighed towards video card performance), the ATI cards are not supposed to be so great in OGL apps. I have an Nvidia-based BFG 6800 Ultra OC that is supposed to be a lot better in OGL than the ATI, but to be honest the ATI has done so well in all the stuff I’ve tried that I never swapped the BFG back in (The Nvidia does have better DVD quality IMHO, it might get tried again, anyway…) ---
**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, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/28 "2005-09-13T19:43:05Z")
> [@Duke of Rat](#): > > What processor(s) is you server based on? It’s smokin’, that RAID 5 is killing the Raptor. > > I’m tempted to slap a different video card in. Seems like OGL is a stumbling block for this test (and the test does seem to be weighed towards video card performance), the ATI cards are not supposed to be so great in OGL apps. I have an Nvidia-based BFG 6800 Ultra OC that is supposed to be a lot better in OGL than the ATI, but to be honest the ATI has done so well in all the stuff I’ve tried that I never swapped the BFG back in (The Nvidia does have better DVD quality IMHO, it might get tried again, anyway…) Dual Hyper-threaded Xeon 3.6 Ghz procs. The Raid array also appers to be set up to spew rather than suck data…On my home machine, everything was pretty much 20 MB/sec, on the server, the first large data read was 114 MB/sec. ---
**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, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/29 "2005-09-13T20:21:19Z")
- - - Well, I was robbed (perhaps). If you have multiple CPU’s, the test uses all of them–but I have dual videoscreens, and it only ran the graphics tests on the main screen. If it had ran the test on both screens, would it have registered the same (because each screen would be 50% of the total load) or would my video scores be twice as high?.. ~ ---
**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, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/30 "2005-09-13T20:26:19Z")
> [@DougC](#): > > - > - > - Well, I was robbed (perhaps). If you have multiple CPU’s, the test uses all of them–but I have dual videoscreens, and it only ran the graphics tests on the main screen. If it had ran the test on both screens, would it have registered the same (because each screen would be 50% of the total load) or would my video scores be twice as high?.. > ~ You’re joking, right? You have two screens, but only one GPU (unless you’re running two or more in SLI mode) now, if you reduce the screen resolution to 640x480x32, you might see some improvements too. Although something used as a _benchmark_ should abstract out things like resolution, I doubt this particular one does. ---
**Author:** ![Thirty-Nine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Thirty-Nine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thirty-Nine)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/31 "2005-09-13T20:27:00Z")
41608 from a Dell Inspiron 5150 Laptop, 2.8Ghz Mobile Pentium 4, 512MB RAM, Geforce FX Go5200 ---
**Author:** ![da\_pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@da\_pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/da_pope)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/32 "2005-09-13T23:06:46Z")
78102 ALU 8299 FPU 8912 MEM 5952 HDD 5850 GDI 13824 D2D 6617 OGL 28648 x64 3500 (no OC’ing) 4GB ram (XP32 only sees 3) X800XL SATA seemed to do ok on the OGL, until 128 objects, but my native res is 1680X1050. 2nd (or 3rd) biggest weiner here. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/33 "2005-09-14T00:03:44Z")
Mark 68503 ALU 6768 FPU 7178 MEM 6364 HDD 6517 GDI 12670 D2D 7472 OGL 21534 Running: AMD 64 3000 1GB RAM Geforce 6600GT Just as a point of interest, I noticed on the polygon test that the backs for the processors had AMD Athlon written on them…anyone else notice that? ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/34 "2005-09-14T01:23:09Z")
Mark 44308 ALU 6502 FPU 8084 MEM 4376 HDD 5085 GDI 8017 D2D 1662 OGL 10582 Dell Inspiron 6000 w/ 1.7 GHz Pentium M 1 GB Ram But what does it all _mean_ mean? ---
**Author:** ![da\_pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@da\_pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/da_pope)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/35 "2005-09-14T01:37:12Z")
> [@Jayn\_Newell](#): > > Just as a point of interest, I noticed on the polygon test that the backs for the processors had AMD Athlon written on them…anyone else notice that? i think they had both, a P4 and an Athlon ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/36 "2005-09-14T01:55:55Z")
Overall score was 37299, which ain’t shabby by a long shot. I’ve got a mobile Athlon XP 2400+ running at 1.8GHz (133x14.5) with a GeForce II (Ti4200) graphics card and 1GB of PC2100 RAM. There’s a Raid-0 inside, but basically this is a system that I have been incrementally improving for almost five years now. It’s still so good at playing the games I own that I don’t see myself upgrading for quite some time – waiting for the 64-bit machines to mature a little, and for PCI-E and Serial IDE to take over their older cousins PCI and IDE. Once the hardware standards for this new generation level out, I’ll be upgrading again. I could put another 2GB of RAM into it… but why bother? I could shell out for the fastest 8xAGP graphics card on the market… and be left with a relic! …and the CPU already requires third-party software to recognize its full potential (my motherboard manufacturer never made a BIOS that supported multipliers of more than 14.5x). ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/37 "2005-09-14T02:06:29Z")
My score is a respectable 86,813. ALU 10684 FPU 11410 MEM 7418 HDD 7356 GDI 9540 D2D 4454 OGL 35951 P4 3.20GHz 1GB RAM RADEON X850 XT ---
**Author:** ![da\_pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@da\_pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/da_pope)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/38 "2005-09-14T02:08:24Z")
I went on the site to see how my machine compared, the top machine posts a score of 21553359!! most of the sections aren’t much better than mine, except he’s got a disk score of 21476691!! without RAID!!?? for poops and grins, i found some ramdrive software and retested: Mark: 120003 ALU: 8283 FPU: 7810 MEM: 5968 **HDD: 48755** GDI: 13898 D2D: 6597 OGL: 28692 so obviously not to hard to game the system here. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/39 "2005-09-14T03:37:15Z")
Well, I’m not too sure how much to pay attention to this; I was also running iTunes and some other apps. Mark: 47779 ALU: 8248 FPU: 8803 MEM: 6800 HDD: 4043 GDI: 8782 D2D: 3969 OGL: 7134 Well, this does tell me two things. First, if I’m really curious, I need to run EndItAll and then run this program. Second, maybe it truly is finally time to replace my old GeForce2 GTS. But it’d have to be AGP, because my new motherboard doesn’t have PCI-E (at least, I think all the PCI slots–and I have six or seven–are PCI and not PCI-E.) Oh, this is an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ running at 2.29 GHz with 1 gig of RAM. It is very slightly overclocked–standard clock speed is 2.2 GHz. Or maybe what it’s telling me is that I need to upgrade to a 64-bit OS. Or that I should really get those two SATA drives I’ve been thinking about and RAID everything that’s currently on my IDEE drive. Though I don’t know what I’d do then with a completely empty 120 gig IDEE drive. I did manage to find my [motherboard](http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-K8NS%20Ultra-939.htm). I have no idea if this is a good board on not. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/40 "2005-09-14T04:04:09Z")
I would have you all beat if the damn software would run on my Windows 3.0, 386sx with 16mb ram and ISA video card. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364.md?page=3)