Vitalij Vasilevskij,
A benchmark test I like very much is Passmark's Performance Test. this is a quite comprehensive test that measures CPU, video, memory, and disk performance and establishes a baseline system rating that is compared to other systems, and then searchable an can be indexed for each parameter. The tests are a mix intended to reveal comparative performance in different parameters , the CPU tests integers, floating point, the GPU does filtering, zoom, scroll, DirectX, games FPS, the memory reads and writes different size files, and so on. And, each version tends to have a similar test weighting that makes the results comparable
For example, I have two systems, a Dell Precision T5400 from 2008>
Dell Precision T5400 > 2X Xeon X5460 quad core @3.16GHz > 16GB ECC 667> Quadro FX 4800 (1.5GB) > WD RE4 500GB / Seagate Barracuda 500GB > M-Audio 2496 Sound Card > Linksys 600N WiFi > Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit > HP 2711x 27" 1920 x 1080 > AutoCad, Revit, Solidworks, Sketchup Pro, Corel Technical Designer, Adobe CS MC, WordP Office, MS Office Pro
Passmark system rating = 1859, CPU= 8527, 2D= 517 , 3D=1097 MEM=729, DISK=929
> and an HP z420 from 2013 >
HP z420 > Xeon E5-1620 quad core @ 3.6 / 3.8GHz > 24GB ECC 1600 RAM > Quadro 4000 (2Gb)> Samsung 840 SSD 250GB /Western Digital WD1003FZEX 1TB> M-Audio 192 sound card > AE3000 USB WiFi // HP 2711X, 27" 1920 X 1080 // Windows 7 Ultimate 64 > Autodesk Building Design Suite, Inventor Pro, Solidworks, Adobe CS MC, Corel Technical Design Sketchup Pro, WordP Office, MS Office Pro
Passmark system rating = 3815, CPU= 8985, 2D= 767 , 3D=2044 MEM=2523, DISK=2986
You can see at a glance that the new HP is a much better performer than the older Dell, but these results are made more meaningful by the Passmark search features. I can search just by each component or combination of components for comparative results. For example, if I search by "Dell Precision T5400 alone, I see that the highest rating of 126 systems is 2161 and the lowest is 654. then filtering the parameters, I see that by rating, it's no. 23, CPU performance, my no.4, by 2D, it's no. 5, by 3D no.36, by memory, it's no. 11., by disk it's no. 50. I learn from this is that the Quadro FX4800 is very good in 2D, but can't compete in 3D with Gefroce GTX's, that the DDR2 667 RAM limitation means my system can rate about as well as any in that category, but mainly that WD 500GB RE4 is much slower than than the systems with SSD's! If I apply the same technique to the HP, I can then see that while the single Xeon E5-1620 does as well as the dual Xeon X5460's, the faster (ECC 1600) memory, GPU (Quadro 4000 2GB), and much faster disk (Samsung 840/ WD Black) make the overall rating double that of the Dell.
Breaking Down Results > If I do a search in Passmark baselines by each component, I can see how the Precision T5400 comparatively utilizes the two Xeon X5460's, the Quadro FX4800, and etc.
The other extremely useful feature is that you can do "Advanced Search" by CPU, Graphics Card, Drive, Other (like motherboard, brand /model) and by selecting the search with components you want to use to build a system, see in advance how the performance is likely to compare to finished systems.
Top 100 > A surprisingly useful feature is a button called "Top 100" and you can see the best performing 100 systems and which components they're using. Hint > buy an i7-3960X overclocked to 4.6+GHz, an ASUS Rampage IV Ext, P9X79, or MSI Z87-G, a GTX Titan, 780, or 680, 670 , Radeon R9 290, Quadro 6000 ASUS Rampage, an OCZ Revodrive, with LSI RAID controller (there are a lot of RAID 0's in this category), or Samsung 840 Pro, and you'll be flying with the big boys !
Again, any of these tests has no claim to reveal some kind of absolute performance, everything is relative to the other systems using the same test. These tests are configured and weighted too in way that don't reveal a lot of how well they would run particular applications. Performance Test seems to favor performance in gaming or similar applications, and the disk performance is particularly strongly weighted.
You can download a 30-day trial of Passmark Performance Test, but if you're interested in performance and refinements/ upgrades, I'd say just buy it.
Cheers,
BambiBoom
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