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by Dr. Ian Cutress on May 7, 2020 9:00 AM ESTCPU Performance: Web and Legacy Tests
While more the focus of low-end and small form factor systems, web-based benchmarks are notoriously difficult to standardize. Modern web browsers are frequently updated, with no recourse to disable those updates, and as such there is difficulty in keeping a common platform. The fast paced nature of browser development means that version numbers (and performance) can change from week to week. Despite this, web tests are often a good measure of user experience: a lot of what most office work is today revolves around web applications, particularly email and office apps, but also interfaces and development environments. Our web tests include some of the industry standard tests, as well as a few popular but older tests.
We have also included our legacy benchmarks in this section, representing a stack of older code for popular benchmarks.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
Speedometer 2: JavaScript Frameworks
Our newest web test is Speedometer 2, which is a accrued test over a series of JavaScript frameworks to do three simple things: built a list, enable each item in the list, and remove the list. All the frameworks implement the same visual cues, but obviously apply them from different coding angles.
Our test goes through the list of frameworks, and produces a final score indicative of ‘rpm’, one of the benchmarks internal metrics. We report this final score.
Google Octane 2.0: Core Web Compute
A popular web test for several years, but now no longer being updated, is Octane, developed by Google. Version 2.0 of the test performs the best part of two-dozen compute related tasks, such as regular expressions, cryptography, ray tracing, emulation, and Navier-Stokes physics calculations.
The test gives each sub-test a score and produces a geometric mean of the set as a final result. We run the full benchmark four times, and average the final results.
Mozilla Kraken 1.1: Core Web Compute
Even older than Octane is Kraken, this time developed by Mozilla. This is an older test that does similar computational mechanics, such as audio processing or image filtering. Kraken seems to produce a highly variable result depending on the browser version, as it is a test that is keenly optimized for.
The main benchmark runs through each of the sub-tests ten times and produces an average time to completion for each loop, given in milliseconds. We run the full benchmark four times and take an average of the time taken.
3DPM v1: Naïve Code Variant of 3DPM v2.1
The first legacy test in the suite is the first version of our 3DPM benchmark. This is the ultimate naïve version of the code, as if it was written by scientist with no knowledge of how computer hardware, compilers, or optimization works (which in fact, it was at the start). This represents a large body of scientific simulation out in the wild, where getting the answer is more important than it being fast (getting a result in 4 days is acceptable if it’s correct, rather than sending someone away for a year to learn to code and getting the result in 5 minutes).
In this version, the only real optimization was in the compiler flags (-O2, -fp:fast), compiling it in release mode, and enabling OpenMP in the main compute loops. The loops were not configured for function size, and one of the key slowdowns is false sharing in the cache. It also has long dependency chains based on the random number generation, which leads to relatively poor performance on specific compute microarchitectures.
3DPM v1 can be downloaded with our 3DPM v2 code here: 3DPMv2.1.rar (13.0 MB)
x264 HD 3.0: Older Transcode Test
This transcoding test is super old, and was used by Anand back in the day of Pentium 4 and Athlon II processors. Here a standardized 720p video is transcoded with a two-pass conversion, with the benchmark showing the frames-per-second of each pass. This benchmark is single-threaded, and between some micro-architectures we seem to actually hit an instructions-per-clock wall.
GeekBench4: Synthetics
A common tool for cross-platform testing between mobile, PC, and Mac, GeekBench 4 is an ultimate exercise in synthetic testing across a range of algorithms looking for peak throughput. Tests include encryption, compression, fast Fourier transform, memory operations, n-body physics, matrix operations, histogram manipulation, and HTML parsing.
I’m including this test due to popular demand, although the results do come across as overly synthetic, and a lot of users often put a lot of weight behind the test due to the fact that it is compiled across different platforms (although with different compilers).
We record the main subtest scores (Crypto, Integer, Floating Point, Memory) in our benchmark database, but for the review we post the overall single and multi-threaded results.
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PeterCollier - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
I'm expressing my informed opinion, what's your issue?Korguz - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
informed opinion ?? yea rightDeicidium369 - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
Don't mind Korguz - he never offers anything to the conversation... the is a hard core AMD shill who thinks he makes his point by calling other people Intel shills. He is a bit creepy - he will follow you on multiple forums...Just ignore him - he has nothing.
Korguz - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
and you can also ignore Deicidium369, he cant get is OWN personal facts straight, and also gives false information on another site, so anything he says are lies, and BS calls me a hardcore amd shill, but yet, says NOTHING positive about amd, but praises intel like a god, go figure" He is a bit creepy - he will follow you on multiple forums... " FYI there are others that know about your other post that are full of mis information, and call you out on it to, and your response, just like here, name calling, insults, and condescending remarks, this is why you were banned from tom's, was it not ?
Korguz - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
" Just ignore him - he has nothing. " oh i do, do " ?take a look that these 2 pics here :
in the 1st pic, he states he retired @ 28, 20 years ago( year 2000 ), then a few days later claims he started, and built up a complete woodshop business 40 years ago, which using his " retired at 28 " BS, as a reference, would of made him EIGHT years old. so either he is a lier, or he cant get his facts straight. the only reason to listen to him, is cause his posts are comedy gold
i wonder what BS he will type for this now
Korguz - Friday, May 8, 2020 - link
https://imgur.com/a/s9Ift1pPeterCollier - Saturday, May 9, 2020 - link
Thanks, I'll make a mental note to ignore him.Spunjji - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
This comment is absolutely hilarious. Korguz mocks PeterCollier for accusing Ian and AnandTech of anti-Intel bias, and Deicidium369 chimes in saying it's because... *drumroll* Korguz is a "hard core AMD shill". Even better is that PeterCollier goes on to agree.Peter and Deicidium make a great pairing - two sides to the same demented coin.
PeterCollier - Monday, May 11, 2020 - link
Your obsession with certain posters is concerning.Spunjji - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - link
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