Benchmarking and testing hardware
Stress testing or benchmarking hardware is useful to see if the BIOS/UEFI settings, RAM timings and hardware configuration are correct.
Tools
- Open HW Monitor – shows you sensors and general system information
- Phoronix Test Suite – automated Linux benchmarks
Linux
- glmark2 – simple OpenGL benchmark with multiple test scenes.
- vkmark – simple Vulkan benchmark similar to glmark2
Stresstest
- mprime – calculates Pi and verifies it, CPU and RAM stresstests
- Furmark – rotating fur donut to stress test your GPU
- mdsched.exe – Windows tool for testing memory
CPU
CPU benchmark list: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/CPU_mega_page.html
Excerpt:
| Model | Cores | Frequency | TDP | CPU Mark (single) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i5-3350P | 4 | 3.1 GHz | 69W | ▄▄▄▄▄▄ 6121 (1747) | Q4 2012 |
| Intel Pentium G4560 | 2 | 3.5 GHz | 54W | ▄▄▄▄▄ 4930 (1984) | Q1 2017 |
| Intel Core2 Quad Q8200 | 4 | 2.33 GHz | 95W | ▄▄▄ 2822 (992) | Q3 2008 |
| AMD A10 Micro-6700T APU | 4 | 1.2-2.2 GHz | 5W | ▄▄ 1890 (762) | Q2 2015 |
| Intel Pentium E5500 | 2 | 2.8 GHz | 65W | ▄▄ 1633 (1130) | Q2 2010 |
| Intel Pentium 4-3067 | 1 | 3.06 GHz | 81W | ▄ 347 (655) | Q2 2005 |